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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 08 Hansard (Thursday, 5 August 2004) . . Page.. 3659 ..

Mr Wood: The answer to the member’s question is:

The Member will be aware that it is not possible to provide final cost-weighted activity for the 2003-04 financial year within a week or two of the end of the year.

The process of coding medical records and inputting those records into hospital administration systems can delay final annual figures for some weeks from the end of the year.

This information will be provided to the Member as soon as available.

In preliminary unweighted terms, our hospitals reported the highest elective surgery throughput on record in 2003-04. I am waiting for final validation of numbers before releasing the figures.

I have included information reporting cost weighted activity to the end of April 2004 for the Member’s information:

ACT Public Hospitals

Surgical activity – elective status – July 2003 to April 2004

Source: Admitted patient care database

AR-DRG Version 4.2, National Public Weights Round 5 Surgical service related groups

Hospitals—nurses
(Question No 1704)

Mr Smyth asked the Acting Minister for Health, upon notice, on 1 July 2004:

In 2003-04, how many (a) nurses have resigned and at what level of qualification were those nurses, (b) nurses have been recruited and at what level did these nurses enter at to work in our hospitals and (c) complaints were received by the (i) Minister and (ii) Department of Health regarding workloads of nurses.

Mr Wood: The answer to the member’s question is:

With regard to part (a) of your question, the headcount of permanent nurses who resigned from The Canberra Hospital and Calvary Health Care from July 2003 to the end of June 2004 by classification level, was:

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