Page 535 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 22 March 2023
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and maybe it was not clear from the transcript or maybe it was open to interpretation—in relation to the junior medical staff in the cardiology department was to culture, and the feedback was in relation to their working environment.
I can also assure Ms Castley, as I think I said on radio, that, in looking at the Health Round Table data that compares peer hospitals, and in looking at the quality and safety data that is available, Canberra Health Services has assured itself about this, and provided this information in the meeting with cardiologists that I held on Monday evening, with the CEO of Canberra Health Services and a couple of other executives from Canberra Health Services and the Health Directorate. That information was provided to cardiologists; in terms of benchmarking, in terms of the quality and safety information that we have, our cardiology department at Canberra Health Services is operating at or above benchmarks with its peers.
MS CASTLEY: Minister, have you received any advice in the last 12 months from CHS or the Royal Australasian College of Physicians that the cardiology department has fallen below national or international standards?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Not to my recollection.
MR COCKS: Minister, will you remove all doubt on these matters by tabling all correspondence between CHS and the Royal College of Physicians for the past 12 months?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I will take that question on notice.
Gambling—harm minimisation
DR PATERSON: My question is to the Minister for Gaming. Minister, 10 per cent of our population experience harm from gambling. We are about six months out from Gambling Harm Awareness Week. What evaluation of the impact and reach of last year’s Gambling Harm Awareness Week activities was conducted?
Mr Hanson: Does it cover the Labor Clubs?
MR RATTENBURY: Mr Acting Speaker, I think Mr Hanson wants to answer this question. I think he is keen to get up and have a go!
Mr Hanson: I really do!
MR RATTENBURY: There has been some really good feedback from last year’s Gambling Harm Awareness Week. Last year, particularly, there was an approach that sought to work in a partnership model that has proved to be quite effective. The partners were the Gambling and Racing Commission and community stakeholders.
This approach avoids the perception of the Gambling and Racing Commission or the ACT government lecturing the community with messaging about signs of gambling harm and aims to support a whole-of-community focus. The fact that that comes from the partner organisations and, particularly, peer-type representatives of those organisations, is considered to have been a really effective feature of last year’s
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