Page 949 - Week 04 - Thursday, 3 May 2007
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achievement. This demonstrates that ACT Health has met the required standard against the criteria. ACT Health was also awarded a rating of extensive achievement against 12 mandatory criteria. To be awarded a rating of extensive achievement an organisation needs to have gone beyond the level required, and to achieve this against 12 criteria is certainly an excellent achievement.
ACT Health has also progressed all past recommendations. We have not received any high priority recommendations. A high priority recommendation is allocated if a surveyor identifies a serious risk that compromises consumer/patient care or safety or where there is no evidence of continuous quality improvement. The fact there were no high priority recommendations is a further vote of confidence from the reviewers.
ACHS surveyors commended the ACT Health corporate office for its outstanding surveyor preparation and praised its enthusiastic and innovative culture which permeated through all levels of the organisation. Community Health received commendations of staff for their commitment to quality customer service and the high number of quality activities.
Surveyors also found the Canberra Hospital to be a very good organisation, with strong leadership and many interesting quality activities being undertaken. Mental health also received high praise and recognition for its paths of healing information booklets, its willingness to listen and involve consumers in mental health initiatives, and service development and commitment to occupational health and safety.
Finally, I would like to congratulate ACT Health for this achievment and its ongoing commitment to achieving and maintaining portfolio-wide accreditation.
Mr Smyth: Would the minister like to move that the Assembly take note of the paper?
MS GALLAGHER: Sure. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (4.03): I thank the minister for finally tabling this speech. It is interesting that she has had the reports for some months. She was quite happy to crow earlier in the year about how well mental health had done, but it has taken some months for this information to be made available to the people of the ACT. Over the last couple of days we have had a significant debate about the promise of openness and accountability. I was just wondering if the minister would like to table the four segments of the report so that we can see what the report says. What we have here is, in fact, quite a vague summary of quite a large report that looks extensively—
Ms Gallagher: I will give you a briefing, Brendan.
MR SMYTH: The minister has offered me a briefing and I would be grateful for that. But if the reports are so good, minister, would it not be appropriate to table the reports so that the health community, the allied health professionals, the nurses, the doctors, the health bureaucrats, the health consumers and, indeed, the shadow minister for health might have a chance to read the report and to assess for themselves what the
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