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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (10 July) . . Page.. 2459 ..
Pursuant to section 17, instruments (3) varying appropriation relating to Commonwealth funding and statements of reasons, dated 29 June 2000.
Pursuant to section 19B, instrument of authorisation of expenditure and a statement of reasons, dated 29 June 2000.
MR MOORE: On 29 June, Mr Stanhope asked me a question which I took on notice. Because we will not be sitting again for a long time, I table my response and ask for leave to have it incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The response read as follows:
Mr Stanhope asked the Minister for Health:
"Can the Minister tell the Assembly the extent of the bid from Canberra Hospital in the tendering process and what areas it was not successful in, and why, and is the report in this morning's Canberra Times correct, and if it is what is the perceived problem?"My answer is as follows:
Information regarding the extent of the bid from the Canberra Hospital (TCH) forms part of the tendering process and is therefore confidential to the tenderer. However, you may be assured that the quality of services was not an issue in deciding where the additional elective throughput should be purchased. The evaluation committee was satisfied that the quality of services provided by all the public and private registered and licensed hospitals in the ACT is a very high standard.There was no perceived problem at TCH. For elective surgery TCH cannot compete on price as well as some of the other hospitals because their overheads reflect the fact that they are a major trauma hospital.
One of the evaluation criteria was the ability to provide the service in a timely fashion. The fact that TCH is tertiary referral hospital, makes the delivery of additional elective surgery difficult to predict. Obviously trauma and emergency patients have first call on theatre time.
The outcome of the tender, with the bulk of the elective surgery being awarded to Calvary Hospital, reflects the differing roles of the hospitals. The fact is that Calvary can better plan its theatre time and guarantee a timeframe for delivery of elective surgery because it does not get the emergency and trauma work. Further, Calvary costs are not as high as TCH's due to the different work they do.
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