Page 1830 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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(b) Progility Pty Ltd has been contracted to provide CHS with a Clinical Communications Platform, hardware, support and maintenance. This includes the switchboard console.
(6) Varian Medical Systems Australia was used to purchase the Medical Linear Accelerator (LINAC) machine. Due to the value of the order, the invoice required additional approvals processes which delayed payment.
(7) The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS) guidelines are utilised as part of the planning of health infrastructure at Canberra Hospital. The NSQHS guidelines establish the requirement for consumer input into the infrastructure planning and design process. Consistent with this requirement, the membership of the design user groups for the SPIRE Project includes consumer representatives, with representatives from the Health Care Consumers Association (HCCA). Consistent with the approach adopted by ACT Health Directorate and CHS, the relevant project makes payment to the HCCA when it provides representatives.
(8) Yes.
(9) In 2019, the project established 10 specialised user groups to inform the early planning and design for the new SPIRE facility. The user groups consist of approximately 120 clinicians, support staff, and consumer representatives. The user groups are facilitated by Major Projects Canberra and CHS, in addition to their teams of specialist health advisers.
The user groups provide advice and input into the following key aspects of the project’s planning:
o Emergency Department
o Surgical Inpatient Unit
o Intensive Care Unit
o Medical Imaging
o Mental Health Short Stay Unit
o Perioperative and Interventional Suite
o Loading Dock and Logistics
o Helipad and Retrieval Service
o Acute Cardiac Care Unit and Interventional Cardiac Laboratories
o Central Sterilising Services
Clinicians participating in the user groups are not paid additional monies to be part of this planning process. Representatives from the Health Care Consumers Association (HCCA) are also part of the user group process and (as per the answer to question 7 above) the HCCA is paid for providing a representative for this process.
The SPIRE Project also has a series of key consultative groups that are informing the early planning and design process. One of those groups is the Consumer Reference Group (CRG), which provides guidance, advice and health service consumer insights on matters of design, accessibility, safety (including cultural safety) and amenity in relation to the SPIRE Project’s building expansion design and construction. The CRG membership comprises representatives from:
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