❓ Mr. Waldron questions the effectiveness of the hub and spoke model and the removal of country hospital boards in improving WA's country health system. Mr. McGinty defends the model, highlighting investment in regional centers and upgraded facilities.
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COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICE - HUB AND SPOKE MODEL
Given that the WA Country Health Service now presides over a hub and spoke model in regional Western Australia, which is all too often found wanting, can the minister please explain how the removal of country hospital boards has improved the WA country health system? Mr J.A. McGINTY
Given that the WA Country Health Service now presides over a hub and spoke model in regional Western Australia, which is all too often found wanting, can the minister please explain how the removal of country hospital boards has improved the WA country health system? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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We have endorsed the health reform program to build up the capacity of hospitals in regional areas. The establishment of the six regional resource centres in Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury means that a lot more country people can be treated locally. They can go to the regional centres - where we will be upgrading the facilities - for cancer treatment, to use the diagnostic facilities, for surgery and for those types of things. People will be able to be treated in the regions in which they live. That is the essence of the health reform program. The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in regional Western Australia on upgrading, and in some cases replacing, those hospitals, such as the Geraldton and Port Hedland Regional Hospitals. In addition, the Broome District Hospital has been substantially rebuilt. Those hospitals will be able to service the people of those regions to a far greater degree than they have done previously. That is why we support the hub and spoke model, and that is the philosophy that underpins our approach to regional health care.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: We have endorsed the health reform program to build up the capacity of hospitals in regional areas. The establishment of the six regional resource centres in Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury means that a lot more country people can be treated locally. They can go to the regional centres - where we will be upgrading the facilities - for cancer treatment, to use the diagnostic facilities, for surgery and for those types of things. People will be able to be treated in the regions in which they live. That is the essence of the health reform program. The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in regional Western Australia on upgrading, and in some cases replacing, those hospitals, such as the Geraldton and Port Hedland Regional Hospitals. In addition, the Broome District Hospital has been substantially rebuilt. Those hospitals will be able to service the people of those regions to a far greater degree than they have done previously. That is why we support the hub and spoke model, and that is the philosophy that underpins our approach to regional health care.
We have endorsed the health reform program to build up the capacity of hospitals in regional areas. The establishment of the six regional resource centres in Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury means that a lot more country people can be treated locally. They can go to the regional centres - where we will be upgrading the facilities - for cancer treatment, to use the diagnostic facilities, for surgery and for those types of things. People will be able to be treated in the regions in which they live. That is the essence of the health reform program. The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in regional Western Australia on upgrading, and in some cases replacing, those hospitals, such as the Geraldton and Port Hedland Regional Hospitals. In addition, the Broome District Hospital has been substantially rebuilt. Those hospitals will be able to service the people of those regions to a far greater degree than they have done previously. That is why we support the hub and spoke model, and that is the philosophy that underpins our approach to regional health care.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: We have endorsed the health reform program to build up the capacity of hospitals in regional areas. The establishment of the six regional resource centres in Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury means that a lot more country people can be treated locally. They can go to the regional centres - where we will be upgrading the facilities - for cancer treatment, to use the diagnostic facilities, for surgery and for those types of things. People will be able to be treated in the regions in which they live. That is the essence of the health reform program. The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in regional Western Australia on upgrading, and in some cases replacing, those hospitals, such as the Geraldton and Port Hedland Regional Hospitals. In addition, the Broome District Hospital has been substantially rebuilt. Those hospitals will be able to service the people of those regions to a far greater degree than they have done previously. That is why we support the hub and spoke model, and that is the philosophy that underpins our approach to regional health care.
We have endorsed the health reform program to build up the capacity of hospitals in regional areas. The establishment of the six regional resource centres in Broome, Port Hedland, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Bunbury means that a lot more country people can be treated locally. They can go to the regional centres - where we will be upgrading the facilities - for cancer treatment, to use the diagnostic facilities, for surgery and for those types of things. People will be able to be treated in the regions in which they live. That is the essence of the health reform program. The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in regional Western Australia on upgrading, and in some cases replacing, those hospitals, such as the Geraldton and Port Hedland Regional Hospitals. In addition, the Broome District Hospital has been substantially rebuilt. Those hospitals will be able to service the people of those regions to a far greater degree than they have done previously. That is why we support the hub and spoke model, and that is the philosophy that underpins our approach to regional health care.
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