Page 1565 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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clinical professionals and other staff in the maternity service at Canberra Hospital. This is a very positive opportunity that came out of an all-staff meeting with members of that unit in March. I congratulate the CEO for taking this step to bring in some experts to work right across the maternity service.
I can give a sense of the success which I think the new CEO has brought to the role. This morning I attended Canberra Hospital for the launch of the new Canberra Health Services vision. It was an extraordinary event. I congratulate everybody involved. This work, undertaken and led by the CEO and a number of conversation starters within Canberra Health Services, resulted in over 5,200 members of Canberra Health Services having a conversation about how they can contribute to the vision unveiled today about the work that Canberra Health Services does.
It is this very approach that the CEO is taking with her executive team right throughout the organisation, working collaboratively with and listening to staff, and, when necessary, bringing in some expert assistance to be able to do this kind of collaborative work, that I believe—certainly in terms of the work that the independent panel undertook—Canberra Health Services needs. (Time expired.)
MRS JONES: My supplementary is: what recommendations did the independent culture advisory panel make about obstetrics and gynaecology in their letter to you?
MS FITZHARRIS: No particular recommendations. The recommendations that the panel made were in the panel’s final report which has been circulated throughout the chamber.
MRS DUNNE: Can the minister confirm that she has not received a letter from the independent advisory panel on culture as was described by Mr Reid, that he would be writing to her about particular issues in particular areas in the hospital?
MS FITZHARRIS: I did receive a letter, which did not make specific recommendations about maternity services, which I believe was Mrs Jones’s question.
Light rail—economic benefits
MR PETTERSSON: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, what have been the economic and productivity benefits arising from the construction and operation of light rail?
MR BARR: I thank Mr Pettersson for the question. There have been, obviously, significant benefits to the territory economy from the largest transport infrastructure investment in the territory’s self-governing history. This project is now delivering what Canberra needs as our city grows—better and more sustainable transport—and it is reducing congestion to keep our growing city moving.
As Minister Fitzharris has outlined, the delivery of the project under budget has improved the benefit-cost ratio immediately because the cost is lower. We are doing still further work in relation to the benefits but it is very clear that the pipeline of associated private sector investment along the transport corridor is ahead of what was
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