Page 1611 - Week 05 - Thursday, 5 May 2016
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MADAM SPEAKER: Supplementary question, Mr Hanson.
MR HANSON: Minister, do you maintain that the published data around Canberra Hospital and Calvary hospital performance is correct, in particular, emergency department data?
MR CORBELL: I do not accept the position of those opposite, which is that all data and all reporting must be questionable because of this incident. This incident occurred in the context of the actions of a small number of people in management at Calvary Health Care who are now no longer employed by Calvary Health Care. Their motivations and their reasons are things people will have to speculate on—
Mr Hanson: A point of order.
MADAM SPEAKER: A point of order. Stop the clocks, please.
Mr Hanson: On a point of order of relevance, the question was whether the minister maintained that the published data about Canberra Hospital and Calvary hospital performance is correct and complete, particularly relating to ED data. I want to get that confirmation that it is correct and complete, not a dissertation about the particular aspects of who referred whom to what in this latest investigation.
Mr Corbell: I don’t accept the premise of the question.
MADAM SPEAKER: Sorry, it is not up to you to accept the premise of the question; it is up to me to rule on the point of order. I remind the minister that the standing orders require him to be directly relevant. Mr Hanson’s question was: do you maintain that the published data is correct. Mr Corbell.
MR CORBELL: I do not accept the premise or the insinuation in the question, which is that the data was not correct. At all times ACT Health work to provide accurate and correct and concise data. That has been our position throughout.
MADAM SPEAKER: A supplementary question, Ms Burch.
MS BURCH: Can the minister outline the government and ACT Health’s response to the Auditor-General’s report?
MR CORBELL: I thank Ms Burch for her supplementary. The government has already put in place a range of mechanisms to strengthen governance and oversight with Calvary Health Care. The delivery of services at Calvary Public Hospital is not undertaken by management of ACT Health; it is delivered by the contract partner: Calvary Health Care and the Little Company of Mary. Calvary Health Care and the Little Company of Mary have set out their response to these matters quite clearly, and they cooperated fully with the Auditor-General throughout the investigation of this matter.
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