Page 264 - Week 01 - Thursday, 13 February 2020
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MR RATTENBURY: Justice health services worked very closely with corrective services during the lockdown. The lockdown was necessary in order to ensure the safety and security of the centre, which goes to the safety and security of justice health staff. There was close collaboration there. Necessary health services continued. There was a reduction of three medication rounds a day to two, but that is an operating procedure that can be used at various times; and detainees received all the medications they were due to receive as would normally be the case, just on a slightly altered timetable.
Canberra Health Services—audit reports
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, the Auditor-General’s report No 10 of 2019, in relation to the financial audits for 2018-19, says that two audit findings for Canberra Health Services remained unresolved. The first one, reported in the first place in 2012-13, relates to timely and complete credit card acquittals. The other, which was first reported in 2016-17, relates to timely reviews of salary reports and retention of evidence of those reviews. Minister, are the procedures for credit card acquittals unambiguous? If so, why are there still issues of non-compliance six years after the Auditor-General first reported on this matter?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mrs Dunne for the question. I do recall reading this information and those two issues being identified, but I cannot recall the detail of what is being done to respond to those. I understand there is work being done. I will have to take that question on notice and come back to the Assembly.
MRS DUNNE: I suppose the minister will take this on notice as well. Minister, are the procedures for the reviews of salary reports unambiguous and, if so, why is the Auditor-General still reporting on those as being noncompliant two years after they were raised by the Auditor-General?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mrs Dunne for the supplementary question. She is correct: I will also take that one on notice.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, why do audit findings for Canberra Health Services relating to important fraud and error prevention policies remain unresolved years after they were first reported?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Miss Burch for the question. It is basically an identical question to Mrs Dunne’s first two questions, so I will take it on notice. I note that it is possible that there may be some requirement for investment in IT or something of that nature which just requires a little time to get sorted out. Anyway, I will come back on notice to the Assembly.
Canberra Health Services—radiology services
MR GUPTA: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, could you please update the Assembly on wait times for radiology?
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