❓ A parliamentary question regarding the relocation of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospital staff and resources to the new Fiona Stanley Hospital, focusing on potential conflicts, bed capacity, and budget implications. The Minister's response highlights the significance of the staff's decision and outlines plans for cooperative transition and resource allocation.
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I refer the minister to the meeting of Royal Perth Hospital clinical staff last night, at which it was agreed to support an offer for the staff, including all those in research and ancillary services, to move as a whole to the new southern tertiary site to be known as the Fiona Stanley hospital. (1) Will this cause conflict with Fremantle Hospital staff who were given the same option? (2) With nearly 1 000 beds to come out of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, how can the two hospitals fit into 1 591 beds? (3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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(1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(1) Will this cause conflict with Fremantle Hospital staff who were given the same option? (2) With nearly 1 000 beds to come out of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, how can the two hospitals fit into 1 591 beds? (3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(2) With nearly 1 000 beds to come out of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, how can the two hospitals fit into 1 591 beds? (3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(1) Will this cause conflict with Fremantle Hospital staff who were given the same option? (2) With nearly 1 000 beds to come out of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, how can the two hospitals fit into 1 591 beds? (3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(2) With nearly 1 000 beds to come out of Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, how can the two hospitals fit into 1 591 beds? (3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(3) Will the minister need a significant budget increase for the Fiona Stanley hospital to provide the facilities that will be on offer at this facility? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
(1)-(3) The development last night at the meeting of the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association was one of the most significant developments in health care delivery in the history of this state. As a result of the Reid report, we outlined a plan for future health care delivery that was designed to take health care to where people live, rather than have it all focused in the middle of the central business district. Approximately a month ago, we presented a clinical services plan for consultation, which outlined a number of options to the community, including the doctors, at Royal Perth Hospital. When I heard about last night’s meeting, I was absolutely delighted, because it means that we can now make significant headway with the full support of the medical fraternity at Royal Perth Hospital in getting those crucial services out to where the public live. I regard that as a most critical development, which will now see the smooth flow of building up our general hospitals in the community and having a world-class tertiary hospital south of the river. A number of people have said to me that in the past, hospitals and health care, with all the various interest groups and lobby groups, were frozen in protecting their own patches. What has happened in the past 12 months has been described to me as an unfreezing of the attitudes that have caused so many problems in the health system. That unfreezing, which was reflected in last night’s bold decision by the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Staff Association, clears the way for very significant improvement in patient care in this state. We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
We will ensure that the clinicians at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals work cooperatively together. We have already set up a number of joint working groups between the clinicians at those two hospitals to find out the best way to deliver patient care through the new Fiona Stanley hospital. That will be a cooperative exercise, which will be very much dependent on the final make-up of the clinical services plan that will be released in July or maybe as late as early August. It has cleared the way for that cooperative approach. Under this proposal, the Fremantle Hospital staff will move to the Fiona Stanley hospital, as will the Royal Perth Hospital staff. We will have a brilliant flagship of the public health system in Western Australia at the Fiona Stanley hospital. The second question related to beds. We will need to make sure that the staged closing of beds at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals and the opening of beds at Fiona Stanley hospital - and, for that matter, the creation of more beds at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - is done in such a way that patient care is the only criterion. The timing of that will ensure that we do not have a bed shortage during this time. The ultimate configuration of that will again be dependent on the finalisation of the clinical services plan. We will make sure that Fiona Stanley hospital, which is destined to have a little short of 1 000 beds in 10 years, will meet those needs, and the phased moving out from Fremantle and Royal Perth Hospitals will be done with that objective in mind. With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
With regard to the budget, and in light of these monumental developments, I will be having a further discussion with my good friend the Treasurer, who I note is smiling at me at the moment, about how we can best accommodate that.
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