Page 2365 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Mr Stanhope: I said you were rubbish.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, thank you!
Mr Stanhope: I was not referring to the statistics.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, you are now warned for interjecting persistently.
MR HANSON: In conclusion, I thank members for their contribution. This is an important motion. The government is trying to deflect from the gravity of what has occurred here tonight but I am sure that more will be played out in the days to come.
I have every respect for the doctors and the surgical staff and the staff who are working hard in very difficult circumstances. And I commend them for what they are trying to do in managing what is a very difficult circumstance. My criticism is the way that the government has chosen to put the lists in a certain light, where they are presenting category 1 more favourably than is the reality and, as a consequence, have put those doctors and those staff in a very difficult position.
I would also like to spare a thought for the many hundreds of elective surgery patients who are waiting on lists, who are often not communicated with satisfactorily and who are often in pain and worried about when they are going to get their surgery and if, as a consequence of tonight’s motion and the action that will be taken by this Assembly and the audit that will be conducted by the Auditor-General that improves those lists and provides better communication with patients, then I feel that we will have done our job tonight in this Assembly.
Amendment agreed to.
Motion, as amended, agreed to.
Adjournment
Motion by Mr Stanhope agreed to:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
The Assembly adjourned at 9.43 pm.
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