❓ The Minister for Health outlines plans for a major health reform program in the southern suburbs, including a new tertiary hospital, upgrades to Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, and ongoing improvements to Fremantle Hospital.
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Our Government has announced a major health reform program for the southern suburbs. Will the minister inform the House what is being planned for this area and what is currently being done to maintain services at Fremantle Hospital? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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Health services for people living south of the river are being transformed as we get on with the implementation of a reform program focused on delivering a healthy Western Australia. Planning has already started for the new southern tertiary hospital, which will have the most up-to-date facilities, including a 24-hour trauma emergency department, cancer treatment facilities, and paediatrics, cardiology and other tertiary diagnostic services. The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Health services for people living south of the river are being transformed as we get on with the implementation of a reform program focused on delivering a healthy Western Australia. Planning has already started for the new southern tertiary hospital, which will have the most up-to-date facilities, including a 24-hour trauma emergency department, cancer treatment facilities, and paediatrics, cardiology and other tertiary diagnostic services. The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Health services for people living south of the river are being transformed as we get on with the implementation of a reform program focused on delivering a healthy Western Australia. Planning has already started for the new southern tertiary hospital, which will have the most up-to-date facilities, including a 24-hour trauma emergency department, cancer treatment facilities, and paediatrics, cardiology and other tertiary diagnostic services. The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Health services for people living south of the river are being transformed as we get on with the implementation of a reform program focused on delivering a healthy Western Australia. Planning has already started for the new southern tertiary hospital, which will have the most up-to-date facilities, including a 24-hour trauma emergency department, cancer treatment facilities, and paediatrics, cardiology and other tertiary diagnostic services. The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Health services for people living south of the river are being transformed as we get on with the implementation of a reform program focused on delivering a healthy Western Australia. Planning has already started for the new southern tertiary hospital, which will have the most up-to-date facilities, including a 24-hour trauma emergency department, cancer treatment facilities, and paediatrics, cardiology and other tertiary diagnostic services. The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The new hospital will be a 600-bed facility. The Liberals have pledged only 350 beds as part of their plan for a non-tertiary hospital at Murdoch. That is 250 fewer beds, and the Liberal Party policy will mean that there will be no government tertiary hospital south of the river. Because the new southern tertiary hospital is being built south of the river, the Government is giving residents south of the river the opportunity to name the new hospital through a competition in the local media. Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Planning has already started on a $54 million redevelopment of Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital, which will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from its current 67 beds to 217 in the short term and 300 in the medium term, and generally improve general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatric services at that hospital. Construction will start next year and be completed in 2006-07. This follows on from the recent completion of the hospital’s new $10.3 million emergency department. It will also be able to deal with gunshot victims, member for Warren-Blackwood. Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Capital works are also planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The SPEAKER: Order! Point of Order Mr A.J. CARPENTER: In the last 30 seconds the member for Kalgoorlie has referred to the member for Fremantle as a mongrel and a slime bag, which I think goes beyond what is acceptable in the Parliament. The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
The SPEAKER: It will be interesting, because that language is unparliamentary. If the member for Kalgoorlie said those things, he should take the appropriate steps and withdraw both statements. I did not hear what was said. Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
Mr M.J. BIRNEY: I withdraw calling him a mongrel and a slime bag. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.A. McGINTY: Capital works are planned for Fremantle Hospital, with $1.2 million being allocated to provide Fremantle with a magnetic resonance imaging recovery unit and for the expansion of day oncology services for cancer patients to ensure that Fremantle Hospital’s services are continuously upgraded while the new southern tertiary hospital is being constructed. This funding will provide beds for the recovery from anaesthetic of radiology MRI patients, thereby maximising the use of the hospital’s new $4 million MRI facility, which will be operational within a month. That will be the first MRI facility to which people south of the river have had access. Activity in the day oncology services has increased by 30 per cent during the past four years, creating space problems on the ward. However, the upgrade will allow the service to expand to meet current demand. In addition, the Government recently announced a $4.8 million capital works program for Fremantle Hospital for the acquisition of the latest computerised tomography scanner, two echocardiogram machines, a gamma camera-CT system, an upgrade to the hospital’s information technology system and a general ward refurbishment. People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
People living south of the river will see quality health and hospital services that they have only previously dreamt of. Under a Labor Government this will be a reality. I say to my dear friend the member for Alfred Cove that she is giving us a very hard choice of whether or not to re-elect her. I suggest she get on board, in which case she might get Labor Party preferences and survive.
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