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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 2 Hansard (9 March) . . Page.. 434 ..
In the past four years the ACT taxpayer has paid for many consultancies for the Canberra Hospital. How many consultancies have been conducted and how much has been paid? Supplementary: Given this Government's obsession with outside experts and its willingness to use consultancies and with expenditure of $559,000 worth in 1997/98 financial report. How many recommendations have been implemented and how much in savins have been made?
The Health Minister's answer is as follows (to be provided by Mrs Carnell in Mr Moore's absence):
Details of consultancies in relation to The Canberra Hospital may be found in the attached extracts from Annual Reports. It should be noted that in some Reports, both consultants and contractors are listed, the latter including payments to Visiting Medical Officers.Annual Report of the Department of Health and Community Care, 1994/95. Pages l 27-l 32
Annual Report of the Department of Health and Community Care, 1995/96. Pages 70, 112-125.
Annual Report of the ACT Health and Community Care Service, 1996/97. Pages 148-156, 185.
Annual Report of the Department of Health and Community Care, 1996/97. Pages 44, 87-89.
Annual Report of the ACT Health and Community Care Service, 1997/98. Pages 39-43, 144.
Annual Report of the Department of Health and Community Care, 1997/98. Pages 31, 134.
As indicated in Mr Moore's initial response to your question on 18 February 1999, there are literally hundreds of reports that have been generated in relation to The Canberra Hospital over the past four years. The attached extracts from Annual Reports list those that were conducted by outside consultants and contractors.
You particularly referred in your question to consultancies totalling $559,000 for The Canberra Hospital in 1997/.98 listed at page 39 of the Annual Report for the ACT Health and Community Care Service. I understand that you agreed that these were not the types of consultancies you were asking about - they in fact relate to such things as evaluation of the Hospital in the Home Program, a discharge planning project and architectural fees.
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