Page 1905 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020

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The ACT Government has provided a partial remission of lease variation charge for public housing developments through the Planning and Development (Remission of Lease Variation Charges for the Housing Commissioner) Determination 2018 (DI2018-93), effective on 17 May 2018.

Hospitals—specialist waiting lists

Ms Stephen-Smith (in reply to supplementary questions by Mr Coe and Mr Wall on Thursday, 18 June 2020):

1. ACT Health Directorate is developing a Territory-Wide Health Service Plan (The Plan). The Plan will identify priorities for health service development and redesign across the ACT.

It will be based on a comprehensive assessment of health service needs across the care continuum on a geographic basis and for priority population groups and will consider the range of public health services provided by Canberra Health Services, Calvary Public Hospital Bruce and other organisations in the community.

This will include consideration of the capacity and capability of ear, nose and throat (ENT) services in context of the prioritisation of service needs across the broader public health system.

2. The ACT Government remains committed to continuing to increase and improve the information available on the public health system, which includes information about waiting times to see specialists.

In 2019-20, the median waiting time for ACT patients to receive their procedure once they had seen a specialist and were placed on the elective surgery waiting list were:

• Urgency category 1 (i.e. surgery required within 30 days): 16 days

• Urgency category 2 (i.e. surgery required within 90 days): 70 days

• Urgency category 3 (i.e. surgery required within 365 days): 198 days

Planning—master plans

Mr Gentleman (in reply to a question by Mr Coe on Thursday, 23 July 2020):

The master plan program produced 15 master plans that were completed from 2011 through to 2019.

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