Page 1438 - Week 04 - Thursday, 4 April 2019
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The ‘invoice date’ for the payment of $23,100 made on 2 October 2018 was stated as 25 July 2018 due to an error and should be stated as 27 September 2018. The Directorate will take necessary steps to have this record corrected.
(2) There was no delay in processing payment of the two invoices from Nous Group Pty Ltd ($27 500 and $30 855 respectively). The ACT Health Directorate first received these invoices, which relate to the work undertaken by Nous Group on the ACT Health transition to two organisations, on 4 October 2018.
(3) The delay in the payment of the invoice for $310,632.76 to American Express for approved training and study leave conferences and seminars funded by the Medical Education Expenses entitlement under the Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement or funded by The Canberra Hospital Private Practice Fund was due to an unplanned staff absence and a technical glitch in the downloading of the statement. The 2 September 2018 date was the first date the statement was available, the date the statement was downloaded for payment was 5 October 2018.
(4) In relation to October payments for NGO SFAs, most payments were made within 10 working days of the due date in accordance with individual SFAs (The majority of SFAs require Recipient Created Invoices (RCI) that are generated by the Directorate. Dates on these RCIs are nominal in nature – the true due date for payments lies within the individual SFAs).
(5) All Equal Remuneration Order (ERO) payments are made to eligible community organisations through ACT Health Directorate (not Canberra Health Services). See also response to Question 8 below.
ERO payments due in October 2018 proceeded as follows:
• Recipient Created Invoices were generated by ACT Health Directorate on 10 September 2018;
• Payments were approved by the ACT Health Financial Delegate on 24 September 2018;
• Payment Authorities were forwarded to Shared Services for payment via email on 2 October 2018;
• Payment was made to eligible community organisations by Shared Services on 8 November 2018.
(6) The provision of Headspace Services transitioned from Headspace Canberra to Marathon Health. As a new vendor, Marathon Health did not register with ACT Government Shared Services as a new supplier until September 2018. Payment of the Vendor Created Invoice was then made within 30 days of that date.
(7) The delay in approvals was the result of the employment contract for the Executive Director, Policy Partnerships and Programs Branch, expiring during this approval process and required renewal prior to the approval of this payment through APIAS.
(8) On 1 October 2018 ACT Health split into two entities: ACT Health Directorate and Canberra Health Services.
As at 1 October 2018 ACT Health Directorate began trading under a new ABN, while Canberra Health Services applied for a name change to the original ACT Health ABN and continued trading.
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