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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4268 ..
. A consistent set of comparisons against both the previous month and the same month in the previous year in all categories.
. Definitions that use the same language as the published data (eg use of days as in definition instead of weeks).
. Will keep previously published data stored as an archive so that any constituent can examine progress to that time. Data should be held going back a minimum of four years.
Specific examples:
Waiting lists:. 98% of Category Two patients will have their surgery within 90 days by June 2004.
. 90% of Category Three patients will have their surgery within a year by June 2004.
Outpatients:
. Average waiting times at emergency areas of both public hospitals will reduce by 10% by June 2004.
B3. Expanding primary and community care
General:
The expansion of primary and community care will mean a reduction of public hospital inpatient episodes from 60,000 (page 65) public hospital inpatient episodes by 5% to 57,000 episodes by December 2003.Specific examples:
After hours GPs:. Extend after hour GP services so that each region within the ACT will have an after hours GP clinic by June 2004.
Telephone Services:
. The single call triage, advice, referral and appointments system will be in operation by June 2003.
Primary care:
. Multidisciplinary primary health care services, which include working with local pharmacists, will be in operation by December 2003.
B4. Integrating hospital and community health services
General:
Through the integration of hospital and community health services the average length of stay in hospital will be reduced by 5% by June 2004.. The clinical information system with a single patient identification number will be in operation across the ACT public health system, GPs and pharmacies by June 2004.
Chronic illness:
. Increased capacity will include an extra 8 workers by June 2004.
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