Page 214 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
(1) notes:
(a) that Stage 1 of the new Centenary Hospital for Women and Children (CHWC) opened in August 2012 with Stage 2 opening in 2013 offering women and their babies state of the art facilities including a brand new neo-natal intensive care unit for the capital region;
(b) that there has been a significant increase in demand for public birthing services over the past two years;
(c) the commitment to resource an independent feasibility study by 30 June 2014 into whether the ACT should have a stand-alone publicly funded birth centre and to assess demand for public birthing services on the north side of Canberra;
(d) the commitment to establish a two-room birth centre at Calvary Public Hospital to allow for 200 births a year through the midwife-led continuity of care model;
(e) the current models of care available in the ACT that aim to ensure that the majority of all women at Canberra Hospital be cared for in a continuity of care model;
(f) that the Minister for Health has commissioned a review into birthing model of care developed for maternity services at The Canberra Hospital to ensure that women and their babies are provided with the care they need throughout their stay;
(g) that the review will look at the model of care, future demand, strategies to address current demand pressures and ways to support the staff at the CHWC in the work they perform;
(h) that terms of reference for the review, and the final report, will be publicly released; and
(i) that the review will be undertaken by the Health Directorate with independent experts providing input to the review; and
(2) agrees that public maternity services should be provided within the Maternity Services Network that covers both public hospitals to ensure the efficient, effective and safe use of public funding of maternity services.
Mr Assistant Speaker, there is pressure because of the construction site that operates around them, but there is no other way we could have done this work. You cannot build a hospital and shut down your services; we had to do it in two stages and move people into the new building so that we could deal with the construction in the old building. It has all been done with rational thought behind it. I know the Liberals like to create hysteria around it, but this review into the model of care will clarify whether we need to make any further changes to the model of care to make sure that women and the staff who work there are feeling supported.
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