Page 3530 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 12 October 1994
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Mr Fraser says:
As I advised previously, there are currently 787 public hospital beds available in the ACT.
This will expand to 803. The breakdown is: 584 at Woden - as I have said, and on which I have been accused of misleading - 192 at Calvary, and 11 at QEII. The advice continues:
The total of 584 at WVH is fully consistent with the figures included in the section for sub-program 26.1 of the Department of Health 1993-94 Annual Report.
There were allegations yesterday that the annual report, which said 560, showed that I was lying. The 560 referred to in the annual report does not include the 13 detox beds, which are listed separately in the annual report, taking us to 573. A further 11 beds have opened since that time. I was advised in June 1992 that a further 24 beds at Woden Valley Hospital would open, bringing the total to 600. I will read that. This is what it says:
You were advised in June 1994 that a further 24 beds at Woden Valley Hospital would open, bringing the total to 600. Those 24 included:
3 Surgical/Urology
11 Paediatric
4 High Dependency
4 Oncology
2 ... bone marrow ...
To date -
that is, to today -
14 of the 24 beds have opened and the remaining 10 will be opened when the necessary staff have been recruited.
I explained yesterday, as I repeatedly said both here and publicly, that we are having some frustration, shared by other health services, in recruiting staff. The advice continues:
In addition, a further 6 beds in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ... are also scheduled to open ...
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