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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4269 ..

B5. Boosting research and development

General:

Published papers in peer review journals will increase by 10% from across the ACT Department of Health and funded bodies by June 2004.

Specific examples:

Research advice:

. The Health and Community Care Research Council will be established by March 2003 and its first report will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly by October 2003.

Research Support:

. The Health and Community Care Research Support Program will allocate its first set of funds in the 2003-2004 budget.

B6. Enhancing the quality of health and community care services

General:

The ACT Quality program will mean a reduction in adverse incidents of 20% by June 2004.

Specific examples:

Legislation:

. Legislation supporting patient safety and quality of care will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly in the Spring sittings of 2003.

Medication Safety

. Adverse incidents arising out of medication errors will be reduced by 10% by June 2004. (see A1)

B7. Improving health care through information management and technology

General:

The Health Information Network will be expanded beyond the public system to include Pharmacists and GPs by June 2004.

Specific examples:

Health records:

. The secure, confidential ACT electronic health record for individual clients and patients to be introduced by June 2004.

Data:

. The draft policies around quality and timeliness of data management, collection, storage and release to be tabled in the ACT Assembly in June 2003.

Mr Deputy Speaker, before I start, I would like to apologise to members for a typographical error in the motion I circulated earlier in the week. It appears that somewhere along the line the Microsoft spell check decided to change "Torres Strait"to "Torres Straight". I apologise for that. It was a simple oversight and I mean no disrespect to the Torres Strait Islander community.

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