Page 2052 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 4 June 2019
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walk-in centre opens later this year. Walk-in centres have been very positively received by the Canberra community.
In addition, in Belconnen we have allocated an additional $40.5 million over four years to improve facilities at Calvary hospital. This builds on significant investments last year and the expansion of the emergency department. The $40.5 million provides funding for new doctors and nurses at the emergency department as well as investments to expand urology services at Calvary Public Hospital and to open more operating theatres at Calvary Public Hospital.
MR PETTERSSON: Minister, how has the government worked with clinicians and other stakeholders in developing its health infrastructure initiatives?
MS FITZHARRIS: I thank Mr Pettersson for the supplementary question. ACTÂ Health, together with Canberra Health Services, has undertaken considerable clinical and stakeholder engagement to inform the planning and business case development for major health infrastructure projects.
We are acutely aware that clinicians, staff, patients and community stakeholders have a great deal of value to add to planning for health infrastructure, and we cannot do this without them. Territory-wide health services planning processes have also been key to planning for our major health infrastructure projects. This has seen ACT public health services come together to incorporate expertise from ACT Health, Canberra Health Services and Calvary, as well as the Capital Health Network.
The formal clinical engagement process for SPIRE expansion has included senior clinicians from Canberra and Calvary hospitals, healthcare consumer group representatives, and executives from both Canberra Health Services and ACT Health, to ensure that their valuable feedback informs the building design and core components each step of the way. I look forward very much to that close clinical engagement continuing.
For the Centenary Hospital expansion, planning and design are further advanced, with clinical user design groups for each specialty area, including neonatology, adolescent mental health and maternity services completing three workshops each to confirm project scope and design.
Broad-reaching clinical, consumer and community engagement will continue throughout the design and build phases of these major health infrastructure projects to ensure that our health facilities best meet the needs of our staff, patients and the community.
Alexander Maconochie Centre—reintegration centre
MRS JONES: My question is to the minister for corrections. Minister, I refer to your announcement of $35 million for a low-security reintegration centre to be built outside the walls of the Alexander Maconochie Centre. Inside the walls of the AMC drug abuse is a problem; we see assaults; there is no daily routine; and the remandees
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