Page 688 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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(b) Category One and Category Two elective surgery waiting times; and
(c) bed occupancy rates;
(2) recognises that the Stanhope-Gallagher Government:
(a) spends the second highest amount in health funding per capita yet consistently achieves poor performance outcomes;
(b) has now received a base rate increase in Commonwealth public hospital funding and that it can no longer relinquish responsibility for poor performances as it has done consistently over the previous seven and a half years; and
(c) has over seven and a half years in government, failed to attract and retain appropriate numbers of general practitioners (GPs) to the ACT and that this failure has placed immense stress on our public hospital system; and
(3) calls on the Stanhope-Gallagher Government to outline when it will improve:
(a) the ACT’s performance in Emergency Department waiting times from the worst in Australia to be the best in Australia;
(b) the ACT’s performance in Category One and Category Two elective surgery waiting times from the worst in Australia to be the best in Australia;
(c) the ACT’s performance in bed occupancy rates from the worst in Australia to be the best in Australia; and
(d) the number of GPs per capita to bring the ACT in line with the national average.
Madam Assistant Speaker, I tabled this motion in December after the ACT got a shocking report from the AMA in its public hospital report card 2008. I seek leave to table that document.
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following document:
Public Hospital Report Card 2008—An AMA analysis of Australia’s public hospital system.
The report essentially says that in many areas of our public hospital system and our health system in general we are actually getting some of the worst performance indicators in the nation. The performance of our public health system is either at the lowest level or close to the lowest level in a significant number of areas. I refer members to page 20 of the document I have just tabled. It has a summation of those performance indicators from the AMA.
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