Page 3143 - Week 10 - Thursday, 18 October 2007
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Mrs Burke: Thank you.
Mrs Dunne: Mr Speaker, the reason Mrs Burke asks for the question to be repeated is that it sometimes—
MR SPEAKER: So she can arm herself to interject or something?
Mrs Dunne: No.
Mrs Burke: No.
MR CORBELL: What is the point of order?
Mrs Dunne: You could, of course, interject on my point of order if you like, Mr Speaker. The point that I was attempting to make was that sometimes the questions are not necessarily in order and if we do not hear the question properly, we cannot actually judge that; neither can you.
MR SPEAKER: I heard it. Ms MacDonald, read the question again, please. I heard it.
MS MacDONALD: It was: can you update the Assembly on the national award won by the ACT’s health risk management project?
MR CORBELL: I thank Ms MacDonald for the question. I was very pleased yesterday to attend at Canberra Hospital to congratulate the team at the Canberra Hospital who have recently won the national Australian Institute of Project Management award for organisational change management project of the year. My congratulations go to them, Mr Speaker. They have won a major national award competing against a number of organisations, including Westpac and the Department of Defence, who have multimillion dollar change management budgets. I know those opposite are not particularly interested, but they should be because risk management and improving the quality and safety of health care are something that ACT Health treats seriously and which the government itself treats seriously.
This project was initiated as part of a process to provide for improved clinical review of incidents in the Canberra Hospital. It involves an online real-time user friendly notification system which allows clinicians, nurses and other medical and health staff to notify immediately adverse incidents and to provide that into a streamlined real-time system that then allows for effective and timely clinical review. This project has now been rolled out across the ACT health system. There are now over 4,000 users using the risk-man technology, and I am very, very pleased to join with my colleagues in endorsing and congratulating the team at the Canberra Hospital for their work.
This builds on previous recognition for the risk-man project. They recently won two awards for this at the ACT project management achievement award ceremony, one for organisation change management and one for ACT community benefit. So they are very much leading the country when it comes to technology to support our health professionals in providing safer and higher quality care and by being able in a more timely way, in a more effective and in a more detailed way to identify when things go
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