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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2147 ..
Mr Wood
: After the operation but before the review of it, was it not?MR MOORE
: No. If you look at the report, part of it is about intensive care, Apache II, and the other one is about the Mannheim criteria. When they check on those two criteria they say at that stage, even when the decision was made to try the operation, that there was an extraordinary outside chance that this person would survive. I know that Dr Jeans questions whether that is true, but he just does it on his gut reaction, whereas the report actually uses the specific criteria to come up with that result. That having been said, all of us would hope that if there were even an outside chance of an operation being conducted-if that were the case and it was that serious-somebody would not be using the phone; they would be down there thumping and getting things ready. That is my interpretation-it is only my interpretation-of the death review committee's report. But I emphasise once again, Mr Wood, that this will be a matter for a coronial inquiry and I hope that that coronial inquiry will deal with those things and ensure that they are there.But there is more to it. I did say to you that even before this situation was raised Dr King, Dr Kerridge and Ms Cohen will be doing a review of theatre utilisation. These are the sorts of issues that will be considered in that review, along with the bottleneck in intensive care and so on.
Mr Wood
: Could this happen again?MR MOORE
: The very reason for getting the death review committee to look at things and to make suggestions is to avoid having a repeat. That is why it was that when I first became minister I asked Fiona Tito to come in and report on that, to tell us how to do these sorts of reviews, because the hospital is of such a complex nature that mistakes will happen. The disaster of the past has been that people have wanted to cover up the mistakes. The reason we have wanted to give privilege to committees is to make sure that these committees have the opportunity to discuss these issues and ensure that the message is received about what went wrong with the last one and how it can be avoided in the future. I think that there are some recommendations from the death review committee that are designed in that specific way.MR RUGENDYKE
: My question is to the Chief Minister, Mrs Carnell. Chief Minister, this morning the newly appointed interim chairman of the Canberra Cosmos, Mr Danny Moulis, was interviewed on ABC radio and he indicated that the costs of hiring Bruce Stadium were too high for his club and that they might be looking at alternative venues if they are able to survive into next season.When the Cosmos signed their most recent hirers agreement, which I understand was for 10 years, the government gave the Cosmos a six-figure lump sum payment which I assume was some type of loyalty payment. If the Cosmos were to break their long-term agreement and abandon Bruce Stadium, what would happen to this six-figure payment and would it have to be repaid?
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