Page 3681 - Week 10 - Thursday, 19 September 2019
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Answers to questions
Hospitals—fracture clinics
(Question No 2577)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 2 August 2019:
(1) For each of Canberra’s public hospitals, how many fracture clinics are held each week.
(2) For each of Canberra’s public hospitals, on average, how many (a) adult and (b) paediatric, patients attend the fracture clinics each week.
(3) For each of Canberra’s public hospitals, is there a separate fracture clinic for paediatric patients; if not, (a) why, (b) how are the needs of paediatric fracture patients met and (c) to what extent are adult patients separated from paediatric patients.
(4) For each of Canberra’s public hospitals, has there, at any time in the past, been a separate paediatric fracture clinic; if yes (a) when did it start, (b) when did it close, (c) what metrics were used to determine whether it should close and (d) what were the bases for the metrics used.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Fracture clinics are only held at Canberra Hospital. Clinics operate one full day a week from the paediatric outpatient department, running three rooms. In the adult outpatient clinic, fracture clinics operate three half days each week, with an additional two half days each month. The adult clinic runs up to 10 rooms per session.
(2) On average, there are 900 appointments per month in the adult clinics and 300 appointments in the paediatric clinic per month.
(3) The paediatric fracture clinic is held once per week. Any paediatric patient needing to be seen in the intervening time will be seen in the adult clinic. Additional paediatric clinics have been funded in the 2019-20 budget and recruitment has commenced for the staff for these additional clinics.
(4) The paediatric clinic commenced in November 2017 and has operated weekly since that time.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
(Question No 2578)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 2 August 2019:
(1) What are the workforce strategies for the (a) Surgical Procedures, Interventional Radiology and Emergency (SPIRE) building and (b) extensions to the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children (CHWC).
(2) What are the strategies to transition existing staff to their new facilities.
(3) What are the strategies to transition (a) existing and (b) incoming patients and presentations to the new facilities.
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