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Hospitals—prosthetic supplies
(Question No 2553)

Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health and Wellbeing, upon notice, on 7 June 2019:

(1) Who supplied prosthetics to the ACT’s public hospitals during each of the years (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19 (to 31 March 2019).

(2) During each year in part (1) what was the expenditure on prosthetics to each supplier.

(3) During each year in part (1), (a) what was the cost value of any stocks of prosthetics that had reached their use-by date and were disposed of and (b) how were those prosthetics disposed of.

(4) At any point, when a prosthetics supplier was changed, were all stocks on hand from the previous supplier used; if not (a) why, (b) what happened to the stocks that were not used, (c) what was the cost value of unused stocks and (d) what costs of unused stocks were recovered.

Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

REVISED RESPONSE

(1) & (2)

Canberra Health Services

Canberra Health Services have advised that the information sought is not in an easily retrievable form, and that to collect and assemble the information sought solely for the purpose of answering the question would require considerable resources.

In this instance, I do not believe that it would be appropriate to divert resources from other priority activities for the purposes of answering the Member’s question.

Calvary Public Hospital Bruce

Expenditure for Prostheses by Supplier by Year (All figures are expressed in $’000)

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