Page 1629 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 9 May 2018
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(B) update the Assembly on the action the Minister and ACT Health took in response to the letter, including any consultation with staff and the agreed outcomes; and
(ii) on the first sitting day in June 2018, present a ministerial statement to the Assembly outlining the Government’s short, medium, and long-term plans for maternity health services in the ACT; and
(b) in relation to the accreditation report for The Canberra Hospital:
(i) table in the Assembly by the close of business this day the:
(A) ACHS’ final report and recommendations of the accreditation audit conducted in March 2018; and
(B) Government’s response to that report;
(ii) report to the Assembly by the first sitting day in June 2018 on the progress being made to address each of the 37 failed accreditation standards in readiness for the accreditation review in July 2018; and
(iii) table in the Assembly by the first sitting day in August 2018 the:
(A) ACHS’ final report and recommendations of the accreditation review conducted in July 2018; and
(B) Government’s response to that report;
(c) in relation to the proposed split of the Health Directorate, table in the Assembly by the close of business this day:
(i) all ministerial briefs prepared by the Health Directorate and given to the Minister, including the Minister’s response to those briefs; and
(ii) the Director-General’s letter of resignation;
(d) in relation to emergency department and elective surgery waiting times, table in the Assembly by the close of business this day:
(i) all statistical reports and related ministerial briefs given to the Minister since 1 January 2017; and
(ii) the timetable for publication of waiting times for elective surgery;
(e) in relation to the SPIRE building, table in the Assembly by the first sitting day in June 2018, the full timetable for the design, construction and commissioning of the building; and
(f) in relation to the unreported waiting times for elective surgery patients to attend an initial appointment with their specialist surgeon, table in the Assembly by the first sitting day in June 2018, the timetable for introduction of publication of waiting times for elective surgery patients to attend an initial appointment with their specialist surgeon.
Minister Fitzharris has been the Minister for Health and Wellbeing for some 18 months and the Assistant Minister for Health for six months before that. After 18 months it is clear that the minister is not across her health portfolio, has failed to set clear priorities in health and has lurched from crisis to crisis. At first, the crises she faced were inherited, but she did not handle them well. Since July 2017 the crises have been increasingly of her own making.
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