Page 1082 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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MS GALLAGHER: That is just for those that need to be admitted to TCH, to ward 2N or to be discharged home.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: One moment. Mr Hanson, this is not a conversation.
MS GALLAGHER: But some of them may spend more than eight hours waiting for those decisions to be taken. I have an amendment which I can circulate. Do I need to seek leave to circulate?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No.
MS GALLAGHER: I circulate the amendment in my name. That amendment does not seek to remove any of Mr Hanson’s concerns—actually, it might. Sorry, I do not have another copy. Could someone get that back to me as soon as possible?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher, you may wish to move the amendment.
MS GALLAGHER: I move:
Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) notes:
(a) that, in the Minister’s Foreword to ACT Health’s ACT Public Health Services Quarterly Performance Report December 2010, the Minister states that the report shows that the increased investment in the Territory’s public health services is working to provide increased access to care;
(b) the Quarterly Performance Report December 2010 shows that:
(i) over the most recent quarter, elective surgery median waiting times have increased across all three categories;
(ii) the proportion of Category 1 ‘urgent’ patients who have their surgery on time has reduced;
(iii) the number of people accessing elective surgery at ACT public hospitals to the end of the second quarter of 2010-11 was 5 476 which was 14% above the 4 820 reported for the 2009-10 same period last year and 252 above target to the end of the December 2010;
(iv) the number of patients waiting longer than a year for elective surgery has increased, however the number of long wait patients had decreased from 2 223 to 2 006 over the same period in 2009 10;
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