Page 6197 - Week 19 - Tuesday, 17 December 1991
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Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Fair Trading (Fuel Prices) Bill exposure draft and seek leave to have my speech incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 9.
SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to:
That the Assembly, at its rising, adjourn until a date and hour to be fixed by the Speaker either at the request of the Chief Minister or on receipt of a request in writing from an absolute majority of Members and that the date and time of meeting shall be notified by the Speaker to each Member in writing.
CLINICAL SCHOOL
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health and Minister for Sport): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a ministerial statement in relation to a clinical school for the ACT.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: Today I would like to make a statement, Mr Speaker, about the Government's position on an issue that has received some media attention and a great deal of local interest over recent times. In 1989 this issue was about, and it was discussed with the then Follett Government. Of course, that issue is a clinical school for the Australian Capital Territory.
The Government's major commitment to the hospital redevelopment program currently under way in the ACT is one of a number of strategies which demonstrate this Government's strong support for improving the health of the ACT community and the quality of its health care services. By bringing together specialities provided by scarce numbers of skilled staff which were previously fragmented, the intention is to ensure that adequate peer review and quality procedures can be introduced.
A number of reviews over recent years have clearly indicated that the development of a clinical school for the ACT would bring about major benefits for the ACT community. These benefits would include a major focus on challenging existing practices to ensure that they are in line with the most progressive hospitals elsewhere in Australia. I need
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