❓ Mrs. Godfrey inquires about the benefits of the new PlusLife premises in Midland. The Minister for Health details the importance of PlusLife, the reasons for relocation, and the positive impact of the government's $10 million capital grant.
AnsweredQoN 309Legislative Assembly
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PLUSLIFE
309. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Health:
I note the recent budget announcement for PlusLife to
establish new premises in Midland. Could the minister please advise the house
how this will help PlusLife support people with serious medical needs?
309. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Health:
I note the recent budget announcement for PlusLife to
establish new premises in Midland. Could the minister please advise the house
how this will help PlusLife support people with serious medical needs?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Belmont for the question. The health
system in Western Australia is large and diverse and has many aspects to it. An
important role is played by the —
Mr B.S. Wyatt :
That's one way to describe it.
Mr J.H.D. DAY :
Does the member want me to give him a fuller lecture? For this purpose, I will
confine my comments to the non-government sector and not-for-profit
organisations, of which an important one is PlusLife, which is an organisation
that was established in 1992, originally as Perth Bone and Tissue Bank Inc. It
is responsible for providing bone and tissue grafts for people who need such
donations—typically people with bone tumours, joint problems and
traumatic injuries and also for children and adolescents who have spinal
deformities. It really is an essential service that is provided in Western Australia
by PlusLife as it is now called. Since it has been established 16 400 grafts
have been provided for nearly 10 000 recipients Australia-wide, including over
6 000 in Western Australia. In recent years, PlusLife's accommodation
has been on the Hollywood Private Hospital site but it will be required to
vacate that location, I think, near the end of this year. The government has
therefore agreed to a $10 million capital grant to relocate the facility to new
facilities in the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority accommodation, very
close to the Midland rail station in what is a heritage building as part of the
former Midland railway workshops. I understand the particular location was
requested by PlusLife and we are very pleased that we have been able to
accommodate it in a precinct that includes the still very new Midland Public
Hospital and will include the Curtin University facilities for the
establishment of a medical school in Western Australia. The precinct in Midland
is becoming quite a major health precinct, and is benefiting from other
substantial decisions made by this government and the previous coalition
government to locate major police facilities in Midland, which was really a catalyst
for major redevelopment.
I was very pleased to receive a letter
from Anne Cowie, the managing director of PlusLife yesterday when, among other
things, she commented as follows —
This capital grant has literally been
life saving for PlusLife and has secured the future of this service for our
state; and the ongoing employment of its staff.
This is another demonstration of the
government's commitment to ensuring that we have a very well funded and
well provided for health system in Western Australia dealing with the needs of Western
Australians and Australians more widely through organisations such as PlusLife.
We are delighted that that facility will be located in Midland where major
government facilities have been developed in the last few years.
system in Western Australia is large and diverse and has many aspects to it. An
important role is played by the —
Mr B.S. Wyatt :
That's one way to describe it.
Mr J.H.D. DAY :
Does the member want me to give him a fuller lecture? For this purpose, I will
confine my comments to the non-government sector and not-for-profit
organisations, of which an important one is PlusLife, which is an organisation
that was established in 1992, originally as Perth Bone and Tissue Bank Inc. It
is responsible for providing bone and tissue grafts for people who need such
donations—typically people with bone tumours, joint problems and
traumatic injuries and also for children and adolescents who have spinal
deformities. It really is an essential service that is provided in Western Australia
by PlusLife as it is now called. Since it has been established 16 400 grafts
have been provided for nearly 10 000 recipients Australia-wide, including over
6 000 in Western Australia. In recent years, PlusLife's accommodation
has been on the Hollywood Private Hospital site but it will be required to
vacate that location, I think, near the end of this year. The government has
therefore agreed to a $10 million capital grant to relocate the facility to new
facilities in the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority accommodation, very
close to the Midland rail station in what is a heritage building as part of the
former Midland railway workshops. I understand the particular location was
requested by PlusLife and we are very pleased that we have been able to
accommodate it in a precinct that includes the still very new Midland Public
Hospital and will include the Curtin University facilities for the
establishment of a medical school in Western Australia. The precinct in Midland
is becoming quite a major health precinct, and is benefiting from other
substantial decisions made by this government and the previous coalition
government to locate major police facilities in Midland, which was really a catalyst
for major redevelopment.
I was very pleased to receive a letter
from Anne Cowie, the managing director of PlusLife yesterday when, among other
things, she commented as follows —
This capital grant has literally been
life saving for PlusLife and has secured the future of this service for our
state; and the ongoing employment of its staff.
This is another demonstration of the
government's commitment to ensuring that we have a very well funded and
well provided for health system in Western Australia dealing with the needs of Western
Australians and Australians more widely through organisations such as PlusLife.
We are delighted that that facility will be located in Midland where major
government facilities have been developed in the last few years.
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