Page 3523 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children, Youth and Families, Minister for Health and Minister for Urban Renewal) (11.32): I move the amendment that has been circulated in my name:
Omit paragraphs (2)(f) and (g), substitute:
“(f) Calvary Public Hospital Bruce (Calvary) is an important part of the Territory-wide hospital network;
(g) the ACT Government has invested more than $1 billion in health infrastructure since 2009, including upgrading Calvary’s maternity ward, the expansion of TCH’s Emergency Department, the delivery of a new rehabilitation facility at the University of Canberra Hospital and the establishment of the nurse-led Walk-in Centre network;
(h) the ACT Government’s commitments to the expansion of Calvary’s Emergency Department and the Surgical Procedures, Interventional Radiology and Emergency (SPIRE) project at TCH will deliver increases in emergency department treatment spaces of almost 20 percent by winter 2020 and more than 50 percent over five years; and
(i) the fourth quarter report for 2018-19 showed that more than 92 percent of patients would recommend TCH to family and friends, while more than 93 percent of Calvary patients reported a positive experience and were satisfied with the care provided; and”.
The amendment largely leaves Mrs Dunne’s motion intact; it just adds a few facts about the investments that have been made by the ACT government in infrastructure and the satisfaction that Canberrans have shown, patients have shown, with the services provided by both the Canberra Hospital and Calvary.
I would encourage Mrs Dunne—as I did, in a rather unparliamentary way, I admit, while she was speaking—to check the Hansard from yesterday and to check what she has said in the Hansard for today. Mrs Dunne claimed that I failed to answer a question in relation to the proportion of urgent patients seen within the recommended time.
Mrs Dunne: No, we didn’t ask you that question yesterday. We asked you—
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Mrs Dunne used the figure of 28 per cent, so Mrs Dunne may wish to go back and check the Hansard for today because she has either claimed that the average figure across all categories is 28 per cent or she has claimed that I have failed to answer a question that I did answer, to which the answer was 28 per cent. I would strongly urge Mrs Dunne to go back and check the Hansard in relation to what she said at the beginning of her remarks.
This motion refers to data that was in the most recently released quarterly performance report for ACT health services. This report is part of our commitment to provide transparent and useful information for health consumers and Canberrans more broadly. It is a report that has been designed with input from the Health Care Consumers Association, drawing on data from 130 performance indicators that are reported across a variety of reports and formats throughout the year. It reports on a
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