Page 4300 - Week 12 - Thursday, 24 October 2019
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to get the appropriate treatment they need. Four hundred and fifty six pathways do not constitute a navigable the health system.
Ms Stephen-Smith: That is health pathways for GPs.
MRS DUNNE: It is not navigable for GPs and it is not navigable for patients. The system is not timely and does not provide people with assistance. I scratch my head and wonder why the government asked the Health Care Consumers Association and provided them with budget funding to do this work for it to sit on the shelf. The report has been on the Health Care Consumers Association webpage since at least September last year. That is over a year and nothing has happened. There are no clear pathways for people to access medical services in the hospital which are reliable and discernible and repeatable. This report is an indictment of successive Labor health ministers for the failure to address this important issue.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children, Youth and Families, Minister for Health and Minister for Urban Renewal) (10.24): I note that Mrs Dunne’s reference to health pathways is actually a mechanism for GPs to better navigate the system that is managed by the Capital Health Network. That was the context of the response to the question on notice that I provided to Mrs Dunne. It is not relevant to the topic of this debate and yet again goes to the way that Mrs Dunne conflates different issues and/or does not understand the different paths of the system.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Out of home care strategy
Ministerial statement
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children, Youth and Families, Minister for Health and Minister for Urban Renewal) (10.25): As members are aware, I have presented a six-monthly report on A step up for our kids, the ACT government’s out of home care strategy, to the Legislative Assembly since April 2018. I am pleased to be presenting the fourth progress report today. A step up for our kids aims to improve outcomes for children and young people in out of home care by providing more flexible, child-focused services and to reduce demand for out of home care places.
The snapshot report is one of a range of reporting and evaluation mechanisms that the Community Services Directorate uses to monitor implementation of the strategy. The report has point in time data on service demand, data on performance of the out of home care system, and comparisons between reporting periods since July 2016. The snapshot report I am presenting today has three years of data: 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19. It means that we are in a better position to identify trends or short-term fluctuations and to continue improving the system response.
To provide a more holistic view of how the out of home care service system is performing, the Community Services Directorate continues to refine and increase the number of headline measures as the service system matures and more data becomes
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