Page 4910 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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Weston Creek Community Health Centre
MRS NOLAN: My question is also to Mr Humphries in his capacity as Minister for Health. What will happen, Mr Humphries, to the services operating out of Weston Creek Community Health Centre when they are displaced by the Therapy Centre? Will clients in the Weston Creek area lose any of those services?
MR HUMPHRIES: In response to Mrs Nolan's question, for which I thank her, I want to emphasise very clearly that no community health services will be lost to the people of Weston Creek as a result of the moves. In fact, the suggestion by someone opposite that the centre would close is a totally false and scurrilous suggestion, and I think it ought to be - - -
Mr Berry: All the community health services are going to close, though, are they not?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry!
Mr Collaery: According to you they are.
Mr Berry: They are.
MR HUMPHRIES: To alarm people in that part of Canberra - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, members, please! I am not going to allow the debate to degenerate in the manner it has over the last few weeks. Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: I repeat that the Weston Creek Health Centre will not close, although some services will move to other locations in the Weston Creek area. A number of services are currently delivered from Weston Creek, including a community nursing area nursing service, an immunisation clinic, a podiatrist, a physiotherapist, a psychiatrist and a social worker. I believe that there is also a doctor, although it is not on this list. Most of those services are delivered sessionally, one or two days per week, from the centre by staff who are based full time at the Phillip Community Health Centre.
All of those services, with the exception of the social worker, will transfer to Phillip. Clients in the Weston Creek area will not be disadvantaged by this transfer of services. Clients who have difficulty getting to Phillip - for example, clients of the podiatrist - will be serviced by an outreach service. The senior social worker will relocate to the Kippax Community Health Centre. This move will have no effect on services in Weston Creek as it is the senior social worker who delivers a State-wide service and sees clients in community health facilities throughout the ACT.
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