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remaining 65, the Education Directorate Liaison Unit is contacting each individual family to offer assistance.
c) No child will miss out on enrolment due to the technical issues that occurred when the enrolment application form opened.
d) The Education Directorate is working with Access Canberra to avoid this issue recurring in the future.
Canberra Hospital—emergency codes
(Question No 288)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 12 May 2017:
(1) How often have the emergency codes been used at (a) The Canberra Hospital and (b) Calvary public hospital in the period since 1 January 2016, excluding emergency codes relating to clinical situations for individual patients.
(2) For each incident in part (1), (a) what was the emergency code level used and (b) was a debrief/review session held.
(3) Does the minister receive reports of the use of emergency codes; if so, what is the nature of the information provided; if not; why not.
Ms Fitzharris: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) (a) There are a number of different emergency response codes used throughout Canberra Hospital consistent with the Australian Standards Australian Standard 4083‐2010 Planning for emergencies ‐ Health care facilities and the Emergencies Act 2004 and form part of the business as usual operations. These codes can be activated on an almost daily basis. There were a total of eighty two (82) code responses since 1 January 2016, activated not including code black or code blue as these relate to clinical situations for individual patients.
(b) ACT Health code responses do not cover Calvary Public Hospital Bruce.
(2) January 2016 to April 2017:
• 51 Code Yellows
An Internal Disaster Code Yellow is an emergency response code to deal with any internal incident that threatens to overwhelm or disrupt services. This involves incidents that may interrupt support services or clinical activities due to a failure of key infrastructure, utilities or other internal processes.
• 10 Code Reds
A Code Red is an emergency response code to deal with any fire or potential fire related emergencies. Within the Canberra Hospital campus there are different types of alarm systems that will notify of a fire or smoke event. When the alarm has been raised, notification will take place through the fire panel system and the fire doors will automatically close.
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