Page 3015 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 17 October 2007
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elective surgery and an exponential tally of mishaps and inefficiencies. My office has received a steady stream of calls. My colleagues have received the same types of calls from friends and families documenting these problems. The most recent are some serious, serious issues raised in regard to the less than optimal surgical outcomes for oral and maxillofacial surgery. Three health ministers in this government have known all along about these issues. What have they done? Nothing!
In his political comment in a recent edition of City News, Michael Moore—
Mr Hargreaves: Ha, ha!
Mr Barr: He’s really unbiased. There is an authoritative source—a former health minister in the Liberal government.
Mr Corbell: A former Liberal health minister.
MRS BURKE: Those opposite laugh and scoff. Mr Moore is a former health minister in the Carnell government. He writes:
The board was able to monitor hospital performance—
That is interesting. That is perhaps what you do not want:
and provide sound advice to the hospital executive on a wide range of matters.
You would rather have it so narrow, so enclosed, and so internally focused—
Mr Corbell: Nonsense.
MRS BURKE: It is not nonsense, and you know it is not.
Mr Corbell: It is complete nonsense. More bureaucracy from the Liberals.
MRS BURKE: They advised on a wide range of matters. Mr Moore goes on to say:
People of great talent and—
Mr Corbell: No new beds, but more bureaucracy.
MRS BURKE: Mr Corbell, if you would shut up and listen, the chief health officer—
Mr Corbell: No new beds, but more bureaucracy.
MRS BURKE: Mark Cormack was non-committal. If you read his transcript from ABC radio—
Mr Corbell: Just another layer of bureaucracy, Mrs Burke.
MRS BURKE: You will find out that Mark Cormack has not dammed this like you are doing.
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