Page 1884 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 6 June 2017
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accurately manage the clinical services. And, of course, I recognise that reliable, accurate data is important to the planning of our health services, which is exactly why we need to get this right.
With regard to ensuring further independent scrutiny, ACT Health has met with the Auditor-General to determine how best to report back to the office on these matters. As the work to resolve the data management issues is ongoing, ACT Health is prioritising and undertaking essential data reporting. This essential reporting includes submissions to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority and the National Health Funding Body. Given that we are approaching the end of a significant reporting period, the end of the 2016-17 financial year, the Health Directorate have assured me that they will be providing the full range of reporting metrics in the 2016-17 annual report.
Whilst the review is underway, some reporting to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been suspended temporarily. I have asked the panel to consider and provide advice to me on the reporting of further data while the review is underway. The Health Directorate has advised that it is likely that further datasets and submissions will be cleared for release during the review, to 31 March 2018. ACT Health is also continuing ongoing communication with its key stakeholders to keep them informed of progress: for example, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority.
Before concluding today, Madam Speaker, I would like to thank members of the review panel for the comprehensive advice to date on how to improve reporting on and access to health data. The directorate now needs time to implement its data management and quality assurance processes to ensure ACT Health data is robust and accurate. Thank you. I present a copy of the statement:
ACT Health System Wide Data Review Quarterly Update—June 2017—Ministerial statement, 6 June 2017.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Suicide in the ACT
Ministerial statement
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety, Minister for Corrections and Minister for Mental Health) (10.21): Pursuant to a resolution of the Seventh Legislative Assembly, I make the following statement on deaths due to suicide in the ACT. In late 2016 the government appointed me as its first dedicated Minister for Mental Health. In accordance with the parliamentary agreement, my priorities in this
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