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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 6 Hansard (22 June) . . Page.. 1642 ..

(5) Funds totalling approximately $6.0m have already been committed against the CUT funding. The particulars are as follows:

$1.5m for the purchase of additional elective surgery throughput (mainly in orthopaedics) from Calvary Public Hospital;

$ 1. 1 m for the purchase of additional elective surgery throughput in orthopaedics, neurosurgery and vascular surgery from The Canberra Hospital;

$87,107 for the purchase of additional elective plastic surgery throughput from Lidia Perin Memorial Hospital;

$2.4m for the purchase of surgical instruments;

$250,000 for the recruitment and retention of mental health nurses;

$180,000 for a program designed to reduce the incidence and potential complications of asthma; and

$500,000 to The Canberra Hospital's Intensive Care Unit.

(6) I plan to spread the use of CUT funds over the next two to three financial years. I believe that this is the right approach as it will become aligned with our longer term aim which is to build the capacity of the ACT public hospital system to allow it to effectively and efficiently manage elective surgery waiting times and waiting lists.

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