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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 12 Hansard (24 November) . . Page.. 3661 ..
MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present information bulletins relating to patient activity data
for the Calvary Public Hospital and the Canberra Hospital for September 1999 and the Canberra Hospital ownership report for September 1999.
MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (6.29): Mr Speaker, for the information of members I present, in accordance with recommendation 33 of the Select Committee on Estimates 1999-2000, the government response to the review of child and adolescent mental health services, and move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
I seek leave to have my tabling statement incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The statement read as follows:
Mr Speaker, the Government has now had the opportunity to consider Dr Barry Nurcombe's report of the Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), which was commissioned by ACT Mental Health Services. I am therefore pleased to be able to table the Government's Response today.
The ACT Government welcomes Professor Nurcombe's report and agrees with nearly all of his findings. Many of the issues raised in the report are already being addressed by ACT Mental Health Services and will be considered in the context of the next ACT Government Budget.
In particular, the issues of increased staffing, improved accommodation, separate facilities for young people and induction training for CAMHS and triage staff are being looked at as priorities.
Mr Speaker, there has been a substantial increase in demand for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. There has been more than a one hundred per cent increase in occasions of service delivered by CAMHS from 6,077 in 1996-97 to 12,426 in 1998-99.
The Government recognises that the present level of staffing in CAMHS is inadequate and has approved the recruitment of 5 new
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