❓ Mr Cook questions the effectiveness of the four-hour rule in emergency departments, prompting the Minister for Health, Dr Hames, to defend the policy's success and criticise the opposition's attempts to undermine it.
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS — FOUR-HOUR RULE
I have a supplementary question. Given that the minister says that he was not aware of the particular accusations today, does he not think that it is time to independently review the four-hour rule policy to make sure that it is working for good clinical outcomes? Dr K.D. HAMES
I have a supplementary question. Given that the minister says that he was not aware of the particular accusations today, does he not think that it is time to independently review the four-hour rule policy to make sure that it is working for good clinical outcomes? Dr K.D. HAMES
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The policy is designed as a target to improve flow of patients through to the wards, and it has been enormously successful. A lot of the work being done by opposition members to undermine this program does them no credit whatever. If we were under the system — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: The policy is designed as a target to improve flow of patients through to the wards, and it has been enormously successful. A lot of the work being done by opposition members to undermine this program does them no credit whatever. If we were under the system — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The policy is designed as a target to improve flow of patients through to the wards, and it has been enormously successful. A lot of the work being done by opposition members to undermine this program does them no credit whatever. If we were under the system — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: The policy is designed as a target to improve flow of patients through to the wards, and it has been enormously successful. A lot of the work being done by opposition members to undermine this program does them no credit whatever. If we were under the system — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The policy is designed as a target to improve flow of patients through to the wards, and it has been enormously successful. A lot of the work being done by opposition members to undermine this program does them no credit whatever. If we were under the system — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The SPEAKER : Members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
Dr K.D. HAMES : I am going to go later to some of the comments made by the doctors who run the system. I will talk about that at a later time. The action by the opposition seriously undermines the confidence of those doctors and staff who are doing a magnificent job treating our patients. The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
The Leader of the Opposition’s comment that the four-hour clock starts again is not true. The patients are admitted and they may be moved again to have a test. That happens all the time to patients who are admitted to wards. Often a patient is admitted to a ward and a certain number of hours later the patient is collected and goes elsewhere for other tests. That is standard practice. It used to happen out in the corridors and now it happens out of the wards when it is super busy.
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