❓ Mr Norberger asks about the progress of key health infrastructure projects. Dr Hames responds by listing several completed and ongoing projects, highlighting the government's investment in health infrastructure and criticising the previous Labor government's record.
AnsweredQoN 1008Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
HEALTH —
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
1008. Mr J. NORBERGER to the
Minister for Health:
The past year has been very busy for the health system. Can
the minister please update the house on the progress of key health
infrastructure projects and how these new facilities will benefit Western
Australians for generations to come?
Several members interjected.
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
1008. Mr J. NORBERGER to the
Minister for Health:
The past year has been very busy for the health system. Can
the minister please update the house on the progress of key health
infrastructure projects and how these new facilities will benefit Western
Australians for generations to come?
Several members interjected.
AnswerView source ↗
It is really. There is so much good news. I start by echoing
the comments of the Leader of the Opposition regarding the Leader of the
National Party and his brother and Phil Hughes—a shocking outcome.
I asked my staff to go through and see what we have done in
health over the last years. We have to give two-to-three-minute answers in this
place and it was really difficult to get the staff to shave it all down just so
that we could list key items. I will not talk about the Albany Hospital, which
the Labor government could not build. That was a couple of years before we took
office, so I will talk about the things we have done.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members!
Dr
K.D. HAMES : There is the $2 billion Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth
Children's Hospital.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : The member does not want to hear these things because they make
him feel bad.
Dr A.D. Buti interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Armadale, you are becoming a serious problem here with your interjections. I
call you to order for the first time.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : He is a serial offender.
There is also the new $360 million
Midland Public Hospital; the Busselton Hospital, which is very close to being
completed; Kalgoorlie Health Campus, something the previous government put off
again and again, as it did the Albany Hospital. Of all things, the Labor
government's excuse was that there were not enough contractors around
to do quotes.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Dr K.D. HAMES :
There are a couple of critical hospital needs in country areas with Carnarvon,
Esperance and Karratha hospitals. Most of them are funded from royalties for
regions. The first cyberknife to treat cancer patients opened at Sir Charles
Gairdner Hospital. A 37-bed paediatric ward at Joondalup Health Campus has been
funded in a tripartite arrangement between Ramsay Health Care, the Telethon
Institute for Child Health Research and the state government. There has also
been significant expansion of telehealth services in the country, and that has
made an enormous difference. Part of that $329 million has been allocated to
the Southern Inland Health Initiative, again, funded by royalties for regions.
They are huge steps forward for health in just infrastructure that we have been
able to put in place.
That has caused some upheaval within
the system. We are working really hard to make sure they all operate
effectively, particularly the opening of Fiona Stanley Hospital, which is going
exceptionally well—touch wood. The reports we are getting back is that
people think it is amazing, and it truly is. If any members want to look at it,
we are happy to organise that.
the comments of the Leader of the Opposition regarding the Leader of the
National Party and his brother and Phil Hughes—a shocking outcome.
I asked my staff to go through and see what we have done in
health over the last years. We have to give two-to-three-minute answers in this
place and it was really difficult to get the staff to shave it all down just so
that we could list key items. I will not talk about the Albany Hospital, which
the Labor government could not build. That was a couple of years before we took
office, so I will talk about the things we have done.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members!
Dr
K.D. HAMES : There is the $2 billion Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth
Children's Hospital.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : The member does not want to hear these things because they make
him feel bad.
Dr A.D. Buti interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Armadale, you are becoming a serious problem here with your interjections. I
call you to order for the first time.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : He is a serial offender.
There is also the new $360 million
Midland Public Hospital; the Busselton Hospital, which is very close to being
completed; Kalgoorlie Health Campus, something the previous government put off
again and again, as it did the Albany Hospital. Of all things, the Labor
government's excuse was that there were not enough contractors around
to do quotes.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Dr K.D. HAMES :
There are a couple of critical hospital needs in country areas with Carnarvon,
Esperance and Karratha hospitals. Most of them are funded from royalties for
regions. The first cyberknife to treat cancer patients opened at Sir Charles
Gairdner Hospital. A 37-bed paediatric ward at Joondalup Health Campus has been
funded in a tripartite arrangement between Ramsay Health Care, the Telethon
Institute for Child Health Research and the state government. There has also
been significant expansion of telehealth services in the country, and that has
made an enormous difference. Part of that $329 million has been allocated to
the Southern Inland Health Initiative, again, funded by royalties for regions.
They are huge steps forward for health in just infrastructure that we have been
able to put in place.
That has caused some upheaval within
the system. We are working really hard to make sure they all operate
effectively, particularly the opening of Fiona Stanley Hospital, which is going
exceptionally well—touch wood. The reports we are getting back is that
people think it is amazing, and it truly is. If any members want to look at it,
we are happy to organise that.
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