Page 3461 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 17 September 2019
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MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, you have had your question.
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne!
Ms Stephen-Smith interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Minister and Mrs Dunne, enough!
Hospitals—emergency department performance
MRS KIKKERT: My question is to the Minister for Health. What proportion of patients who presented to an emergency department in the ACT were seen within a clinically recommended time in 2018-19?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: As I am sure Mrs Kikkert is aware, this information is provided in relation to specific categories. I can advise the Assembly that for resuscitation, category 1, patients 100 per cent were seen on time in 2018-19. For emergency, category 2, patients 74 per cent were seen in relation to the clinically recommended time. For urgent patients, category 3, the figure was 32 per cent; for semi-urgent, category 4, the figure was 47 per cent; and for non-urgent the figure was 83 per cent.
MRS KIKKERT: What advice have you been given about the number of patients who have presented to an emergency department so far in 2019-20 being seen within a clinically recommended time?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I receive advice every day in relation to this matter.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, what proportion of patients classified as urgent were seen within the recommended time of half an hour in the period recently reported upon?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: As Mrs Dunne has indicated, this was recently reported on, so she knows very well that the answer is 28 per cent.
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, you have asked your question.
Mrs Dunne: What’s the target?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, enough.
Ms Stephen-Smith: You did not ask me what the target was, Mrs Dunne.
Opposition members interjecting—
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