❓ Mr. Simpson raises concerns about after-hours GP access in Darling Range. Dr. Hames outlines a new government program providing funding to GPs to extend their hours, aiming to reduce pressure on hospital emergency departments.
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GENERAL PRACTITIONERS — AFTER-HOURS ACCESS
The people in my electorate of Darling Range have trouble accessing doctors outside normal business hours. They certainly do not want to clog up the emergency departments of hospitals with ailments that can be treated by local general practitioners. Mr D.A. Templeman interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES
The people in my electorate of Darling Range have trouble accessing doctors outside normal business hours. They certainly do not want to clog up the emergency departments of hospitals with ailments that can be treated by local general practitioners. Mr D.A. Templeman interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES
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I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr D.A. Templeman interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
[See paper 914.]
Mr D.A. Templeman interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Mandurah formally for the first time. Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr A.J. SIMPSON : What is the state government doing to give better after-hours access to local GPs? Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
I thank the member for the question. We are very pleased to put in place another of our election commitments. It is another piece of the jigsaw that is coming together to reduce the pressure on hospitals in this state. We are not only bringing in the four-hour rule that will significantly improve the throughput of patients through our emergency departments, but also embarking on a number of initiatives that will help take the pressure off our hospitals. One of those is $80 million worth of funding for Silver Chain. Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr R.H. Cook interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : I will get to that. The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I think I have been fairly lenient today. I formally call the members for Kwinana and North West for the first time. Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : I wish the member for Kwinana had asked me a question about these other issues he has raised by way of interjection because I would like the chance to provide an answer. As per standing orders, I will stick to the question at hand; that is, the additional service that we are providing to help patients get out of hospitals. As I said, $80 million will be provided to Silver Chain over four years. Significant increases will be made to funding for the patient assisted travel scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The last increase in services to the public is a program worth $8.4 million over three years to provide additional funding for general practices that are able to stay open longer hours in the evening. We have all had issues in our electorates to do with the availability of general practitioners. We do not have enough GPs in not only Western Australia, but also the whole of Australia. GPs are closing their books, patients cannot get in to see GPs — Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr B.S. Wyatt interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Dr K.D. HAMES : Lots of patients want me to come back to medicine. I wonder how many criminals want the member to come back to law. We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
We have heard from members from both sides during speeches in this house talk about the lack of GPs. We want to try to encourage GPs to work longer hours or to get locums into their practices to work longer hours. Often the difficulty with that is the increased fees for staffing that doctors incur. Under this scheme we will provide up to $100 000 a year for any general practice. We will advertise. Up to 20 practices will be approved. General practitioners in country and metropolitan areas will receive up to $100 000 to work from 8.00 pm until midnight, seven days a week. An extra $100 000 a year, or $2 000 a week, will help pay locums and staff to extend their working hours from 8.00 pm until 12 midnight. They will be paid up to $200 000 a year, or $4 000 a week, if they are able to extend beyond that and open for the full night. Those amounts are for each practice, up to 20 practices in total, to provide that additional service. We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
We have had discussions with both the Australian Medical Association and peak doctor organisations, who are very excited about this. Advertising will commence this Wednesday, and we expect a lot of people to put in submissions for the funds. I hope we can spread it evenly across the metropolitan and regional areas of Western Australia to make sure we get those extra doctors. The critical time a doctor is needed is when a parent comes home from work and a child is sick but cannot get in to see a doctor. The next day the parent may have to go to work. We critically need doctors in the evening session so that we can properly look after the people of Western Australia. Point of Order Mr B.S. WYATT : I refer to the document that the Treasurer tabled a short time ago. It is indeed a Treasury estimate document but it simply refers to “Budget Aggregates—Reversing Certain Corrective Measures” and has a “Variance” table. It is clear that this document is only relevant if page 2 is attached. The document the Treasurer referred to earlier included a list of items totalling $3 billion. It is clear that page 2 of that document needs to be tabled as per your instructions. The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
The SPEAKER : I thank the member for Victoria Park for the point of order. Treasurer, I do not know if page 2 was part of what the member has described. If in fact it is absolutely relevant and should be attached, I ask you to table it. If it is a different document, I would not require it to be tabled. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I am happy to table the document. [See paper 914.]
[See paper 914.]
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