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APPENDIX 11: ( in Hansard on 17 December 1991 at page 6249 )
Hector Kinlochs statement at time of tabling of "Beds" Cie. 1
SELECT COMMITTEE ON
HOSPITAL BED NUMBERS
Statement for tabling by Hector Kinloch
Tuesday, 17 December, 1991
First of all I want to pay tribute to Rod Power, our committee secretary, whose devoted work was way beyond the call of duty. He came into the committee at short notice, and then gave it his full and excellent attention. We are indebted to him, not only for his competence and good understanding of the issues, but also for those necessary last minute efforts to finalize the production of the report under difficult circumstances.
1. The following personal views are not in dissent from but in addition to the report. They are conclusions drawn from an exposure to the range of evidence related to hospital beds. That evidence necessarily stretched beyond the question of the numbers of beds to include discussions of the overall efficiency of our health-care system.
2. As a result of visits to two health-care areas in New South Wales, and in the light of some of the evidence given at our public hearings, I am now of the view that one of the basic faults in our own A.C.T. health-care system is that it is too small to be efficient.
It would be difficult to give an exact optimum size of population, but it is certainly larger than either the 300,000 or so in the A.C.T., or the 400,000 -450,000 or so in our immediate catchment area. Even in the latter case of the surrounding area, the circumstances are such that there are two or three competing administrations of health-care.
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