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(6) to review and evaluate the Government’s strategies to meet the future needs of the population for hospital services;
(7) to consider and evaluate any other related matters that may emerge in the course of the inquiry;
The inquiry process
(8) call for submissions addressing the terms of reference;
(9) require submissions from key stakeholders;
(10) collate and analyse available sources for insights into public hospitals governance, management, and administration and organisational arrangements;
(11) gather and analyse relevant facts, including statistics, benchmarks and attitudinal data;
(12) frame and present specific questions of fact and interpretation to stakeholders (agencies and individuals) in writing for written response as necessary;
(13) frame and present follow-up questions of fact and interpretation as required;
(14) conduct public hearings and cross-examination of interested parties and stakeholders including, but not restricted to, key agencies and organisations;
(15) prepare an interim report, including a draft concept, framework and process to implement sustainable hospital governance, management and administration and organisational arrangements;
(16) take and analyse submissions on the draft report and finalise the report for delivery to the ACT Government;
Time frames for the inquiry
(17) inquiry to present its interim report to the Chief Minister by 31 March 2008; and
(18) inquiry to present its final report to the Chief Minister by 30 April 2008.
Around the country, we have seen some terrible failures in the public health system under various state and territory Labor governments. In Queensland, for example, we have seen the effects of the failure of the states to properly check on the credentials of overseas doctors, which led to the deaths of patients at the hands of a doctor now simply referred to as Doctor Death. In New South Wales, new horrors are being revealed daily in the public hospital system after a woman had a miscarriage in the toilet of a public hospital emergency department after being made to wait for hours for treatment.
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