❓ Hon Sue Ellery questions the Minister for Health regarding the cessation of chronic disease management programs and the continuation of lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. The response clarifies the program's status and service provision.
AnsweredQoN 1210Legislative Council
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LUNG REHABILITATION CLASSES — ABOLITION
I refer to the minister’s answer to question without notice 1191 asked yesterday about the lung rehabilitation program. (1) Is the minister aware of correspondence of 11 November 2009 from Mr Marshall Warner, director of the health industrial relations service at the Department of Health, to Mr Dan Hill, secretary of the Health Services Union of Western Australia, that states, according to my notes — I write to inform you that the Chronic Disease Management Programs within the North Metropolitan Area Health Service and the South Metropolitan Area Health Service will cease operation with effect from 26 February 2010. (2) Are the chronic disease management programs ceasing or not? (3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER
I refer to the minister’s answer to question without notice 1191 asked yesterday about the lung rehabilitation program. (1) Is the minister aware of correspondence of 11 November 2009 from Mr Marshall Warner, director of the health industrial relations service at the Department of Health, to Mr Dan Hill, secretary of the Health Services Union of Western Australia, that states, according to my notes — I write to inform you that the Chronic Disease Management Programs within the North Metropolitan Area Health Service and the South Metropolitan Area Health Service will cease operation with effect from 26 February 2010. (2) Are the chronic disease management programs ceasing or not? (3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER
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On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(1) Is the minister aware of correspondence of 11 November 2009 from Mr Marshall Warner, director of the health industrial relations service at the Department of Health, to Mr Dan Hill, secretary of the Health Services Union of Western Australia, that states, according to my notes — I write to inform you that the Chronic Disease Management Programs within the North Metropolitan Area Health Service and the South Metropolitan Area Health Service will cease operation with effect from 26 February 2010. (2) Are the chronic disease management programs ceasing or not? (3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(1) Is the minister aware of correspondence of 11 November 2009 from Mr Marshall Warner, director of the health industrial relations service at the Department of Health, to Mr Dan Hill, secretary of the Health Services Union of Western Australia, that states, according to my notes — I write to inform you that the Chronic Disease Management Programs within the North Metropolitan Area Health Service and the South Metropolitan Area Health Service will cease operation with effect from 26 February 2010. (2) Are the chronic disease management programs ceasing or not? (3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(3) Will lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital continue, and who will provide them? (4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(4) What changes, if any, have been made to the programs or their delivery? (5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(5) Was the minister or the department aware of those changes at the time evidence was given to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations inquiry into public sector expenditure? Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
Hon PETER COLLIER replied: On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
On behalf of the responsible minister, I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(1) Communication between the Department of Health and unions around significant change is standard process. The Minister for Health was not specifically aware of the correspondence dated 11 November 2009 from Mr Warner to Mr Hill. (2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(2) The metropolitan chronic disease management program is scheduled to cease on 26 February 2010. No individual patient will be affected by the cessation, as the patients graduate from the program. (3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(3) Yes. The lung rehabilitation classes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will remain unchanged. They are provided by the physiotherapy department at SCGH. (4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(4) There have been many changes to individual elements of the chronic disease management program since its inception in 2005-06. The Minister for Health requests that this question be placed on notice if the member would like the particular detail of each of these changes. (5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
(5) No; a decision about the future of the chronic disease management program has not been made at this time.
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