Page 652 - Week 02 - Thursday, 23 March 2023
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Mr Barr: Mr Acting Speaker, further questions can be placed on the notice paper. I commend you for your steely glare that seems to silence Mr Hanson!
Supplementary answer to question without notice
Canberra Hospital—Fetal Medicine Unit accreditation
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Yesterday, Ms Castley asked me some questions about the Fetal Medicine Unit, and I took one question on notice in relation to staffing. I want to emphasise that the Fetal Medicine Unit is safe, and there are locum doctors who are covering these services as we build the FMU team. We have recently had additional obstetricians join the team at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children, and there is lots of interest in these roles.
In relation to changes in staffing for the FMU—people who left or reduced their hours—I am advised that this includes one stenographer. One stenographer left in February 2023, and one subspecialist was supported to go from one full-time equivalent position to a 0.6 full-time equivalent position as part of flexible work arrangements. If there is anything to add, I will come back to the Assembly on notice; otherwise that is the response.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Members, thank you for being so relatively well behaved in my stint as Acting Speaker for the week, and I look forward to Madam Speaker returning to sit in this chair on Tuesday of next week for the next instalment of question time.
Papers
Mr Gentleman presented the following papers:
Freedom of Information Act, pursuant to section 39—Copy of notice provided to the Ombudsman—Freedom of Information request—Decision not made in time—Community Services Directorate (FOI-CSD-22/20), dated 18 November 2022.
National Education and Care Services Freedom of Information Commissioner, Privacy Commissioner, Privacy Commissioners & Ombudsman—Annual Report 2021-22.
Canberra Hospital—cardiology services
MS CASTLEY (Yerrabi) (2.54): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes the letter sent on 6 March to the Minister for Health from five private sector cardiologists, cataloguing their complaints about the dangerous deterioration in cardiology services at the Canberra Hospital, specifically that:
(a) referrals, which in the past could be done by writing to the Cardiology Department, must now be accepted by a specific staff specialist;
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