Page 4335 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 27 November 2013
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(b) in early 2012, The Canberra Hospital (TCH) and ACT Health reviewed the process used by TCH to schedule and manage its elective surgery waiting lists—to maximise the number of people who have their surgery on time, whilst continuing to reduce the number of people who wait too long for their surgery; and
(c) to ensure consistency across the public hospital system, Calvary has recently implemented the same elective surgery waiting list scheduling and management process as that that has been used by TCH since 2012;
(2) further notes that:
(a) in the 2012 reporting year, the ACT met all three components of the National Elective Surgery Targets (NEST) under the National Health Reform Agreement;
(b) in 2012-2013 ACT public hospitals performed 11,579 elective surgery procedures, the highest number of elective surgery procedures ever performed; and
(c) at the end of October 2013, the number of people waiting too long for their operation was the lowest on record with 618 patients—down from 922 recorded earlier this year; and
(3) acknowledges the complexity involved in delivering elective and emergency surgery services in major tertiary hospitals such as TCH and Calvary Hospital;
(4) notes the role that Canberra’s public hospitals play in delivering complex surgical services to not only ACT residents, but also the residents of the southern NSW region; and
(5) supports the continuing work of the ACT Government in meeting elective surgery targets under the National Health Reform agenda, and delivering high quality health services to the ACT and region.”.
Anyone listening to Mr Hanson’s speech will know that it is a speech he has given in this place many, many times before. It is his stump speech about health; that the conspiracy theorists are alive and well; that there is an evil health department that sets up special programs designed to accuse doctors of lying; that that is the intent of whatever Health does. It is just so far from the truth it is not funny.
Mr Hanson spends a lot of his time criticising the Health Directorate in this place but not to their face. When he goes on visits to the health system he is always as nice and friendly to everybody as he can be. But in this place he calls into question the reputation of thousands of people that work across the health system because he always chooses one voice as the only voice of reason and truth. Every time he picks one of the sides in these issues, he picks the side of one voice. That must be 100 per cent right and everyone else is 100 per cent wrong.
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