Page 826 - Week 03 - Thursday, 2 April 2020
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(8) What is the total value of the consultancy contract.
(9) What work remains to be completed.
(10) Has the consultant provided a report to the Government; if not, when will it.
(11) If a report has been provided, what was the Government’s response.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The payment was made for the provision of the ACT Audit of Surgical Morbidity.
(2) The payment was made to the ACT Branch of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons through the Deed of Agreement held with ACT Health.
(3) The report is not an accreditation report and is readily available in the public domain via the follow link https://issuu.com/maxgecko/docs/actasm_annual_report_2017_final
(4) See response to Q3.
(5) Recommendation one related to infections. It was recommended that a system be developed and implemented in line with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard one, and that it include processes for reporting, investigation and analysing the management of pneumonia and align these systems and processes with organisational risk management strategies.
Recommendation two indicated that surgeons should be encouraged to share learning with surgical colleagues. The finding and recommendation should be discussed at relevant meetings.
Recommendation three recommended that surgeons and other clinicians should carefully consider whether their patients would benefit from admission to a critical care unit.
(6) The Government’s response to this report was to note the recommendations and to allow the ACT Health Directorate, who were responsible for the oversight of both public hospitals at the time the report was published, to develop the systems required to address recommendation.
Recommendation two and three relating to clinical management improvements are directed to the individual surgical craft groups for consideration and action and are not for the ACT Health Directorate or the individual public hospitals to address. Each craft group conducts regular meetings where morbidity and mortality is presented and reviewed.
(7) The services provided by Barmco Marna McMurray Pty Ltd related to the Critical Asset Upgrade Electrical Distribution Audit works.
(8) Total value of the contract is $196,790 inclusive of GST.
(9) Following the September 2019 and October 2019 invoices, the remaining works were the completion of the inspections and production of the audit and condition reports.
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