Page 1415 - Week 04 - Thursday, 12 April 2018
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d. Support and case management for young people and adults;
e. Alcohol and other drug counselling for young people and adults;
f. Information and education for young people and adults; and
g. Management of the ACT Needle and Syringe Program, including:
i. Two primary service outlets where the services are dedicated to dispensing an extended range of injecting equipment, collecting used equipment and providing education, information and referral;
ii. Training for workers supplying equipment from eight outlets; and
iii. Supply of equipment to six service outlets, 25 pharmacies, six syringe vending machines and collection of waste.
(4) Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League auspices the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA). CAHMA provides the following peer based services for people who inject drugs and / or have a history of drug use:
a. Information and education;
b. Training - preventing opioid overdose and take-home naloxone management;
c. Oversight of and assistance with the roll-out of programs in the ACT to prevent opioid overdose and facilitate access to take-home naloxone;
d. Delivery of training in partnership with Directions to people supplying sterile injecting equipment;
e. Input to ACT Health plans and actions to increase the capacity of drug rehabilitation services to effectively engage peer treatment support for those people considering, participating in and leaving drug treatment;
f. Facilitates consumer input into local policy and service development; and
g. Participation and representation on ACT Government committees.
(5) The payments relate to two invoices to AMEX for travel expenses (domestic and international flights and accommodation expenses) for specialist medical staff associated with approved Training Education and Study Leave within the Private Practice Fund. The Private Practice fund represents third party money, as it is based on the Private Practice earnings of the staff specialists and the Medical Education Expenses contribution from ACT Health, under Section 105 of the Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement.
AMEX is the centralised invoicing section for the Whole of Government contract and as such all costs are aggregated and paid monthly.
(6) There were a total of 132 staff specialists and 12 nursing or allied health staff who booked flights and accommodation for approved travel within the two payments of $190,348.63 and $236,887.00. Of the two payments, $383,715.13 relates to flights and $43,520.50 to accommodation costs.
The expenditure relates to specialist staff attending specialty medical conferences, annual medical congress and seminars, advanced medical specialty courses and to gain insight and knowledge into current research activities on health topics.
Attendance was undertaken between the periods July 2017 to October 2017, with conferences/ events at both national and international locations.
Further analysis of the conferences and seminars would require extensive effort which would have a significant cost and minimal benefit given that appropriate governance processes have already been followed.
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