Page 4925 - Week 13 - Thursday, 28 November 2019

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Source: IHPA Benchmarking Portal

Question 3:

With the separation of ACT Health into two organisations, Canberra Health Services and ACT Health Directorate continue to focus on improving the efficiency of the health system.

The Canberra Hospital has increased its procedural throughput on the same resource allocation, therefore decreasing cost per procedure in the last 18 months.

Additionally, an independent review of Canberra Hospital’s use of theatre resources shows it has a very efficient use of time compared with a number of peer hospitals in Victoria similarly reviewed.

In 2018-19 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce (Calvary) achieved a record number of removals from the Elective Surgery Wait List.

Additional activity has been agreed and undertaken in accordance with the Annual Calvary Performance Agreement and the Calvary Network Agreement.

This work around increasing activity at Calvary continues. An important element of this strategy is a consistent multi-team approach to theatre list management.

Discussions are currently underway regarding the transfer of emergency plastic surgery to Calvary to improve efficiency across the network by increasing capacity at Canberra Hospital.

Canberra Hospital—security

Ms Stephen-Smith (in reply to a question and supplementary questions by Mrs Dunne and Mr Wall on Tuesday, 17 September 2019):

(1) There has been an increased focus on the importance of incident reporting and the increases may not necessarily reflect an increase in staff exposure to assaults or incidents.

Other factors that may have contributed to the increase in reporting of assaults on front-line hospital staff include:

• Updated internal procedures in Canberra Health Services where a more inclusive approach is taken to classify incidents as physical assaults, including near misses and unintentional acts of aggression. For example, attempted acts of violence such as a punch or kick that misses; and

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