❓ Mrs Munday asks about the progress of bringing Peel Health Campus back into public hands and how the transition will secure public sector jobs. The Minister responds by highlighting the government's commitment to public healthcare, criticising the previous government's privatisation, and detailing the transition process and benefits for staff.
AnsweredQoN 344Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
PEEL HEALTH CAMPUS
344. Mrs L.A. MUNDAY to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the Cook Labor government's
ongoing commitment to our world-class public healthcare system.
(1) Can the
minister update the house on the progress being made to bring Peel Health
Campus back into public hands after it was privatised by the previous Liberal–National
government?
(2) Can the
minister please advise the house how this transition will deliver secure Western
Australian public sector jobs?
344. Mrs L.A. MUNDAY to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the Cook Labor government's
ongoing commitment to our world-class public healthcare system.
(1) Can the
minister update the house on the progress being made to bring Peel Health
Campus back into public hands after it was privatised by the previous Liberal–National
government?
(2) Can the
minister please advise the house how this transition will deliver secure Western
Australian public sector jobs?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) I thank the member for Dawesville for her question
and her passion for public health care and the provision of public
health care to her community. Western Australians know that it is only a WA
Labor government that will protect public
services and protect public health care. I am proud of this government's
commitment and record on quality public healthcare services in Western Australia.
Since coming to government, we have been laser focused on supporting our public
healthcare system and our public healthcare workers to do what they do best, and
that is to deliver quality care to anyone who walks through the door, no matter
their postcode, income or health insurance status. They do so, day in, day out.
It is only this government that has a track record of providing those services
that are needed for the community by the public system. This level of scrutiny,
integrity and competence is needed to keep our health system in check.
I will remind members of what it was
like under the former government in our new series called ''remember
when''. Today we are ''remembering when'' those opposite
privatised Peel Health Campus in 1997, providing a 20-year contract to Health
Solutions. It was those opposite who persisted in defending Health Solutions
despite rejection from the community. It defended inappropriate —
Several members interjected.
Ms A. SANDERSON : They are
sensitive!
This is what the
opposition stands for. It defended Health Solutions' inappropriate
admissions to hospital to enhance and
embellish private operator payments. It defended incentives paid to staff to
increase or artificially raise the number of patients. Those opposite
continued to defend the Liberal Party preselection of Tony Solin, a Health
Solutions spin doctor and a close associate of the chairman.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please.
Members.
Mr D.A. Templeman interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Mandurah, I just ask that you to try to contain yourself.
Ms A. SANDERSON : It
preselected a senior executive from Health Solutions to run against the sitting
member for Mandurah when Health Solutions
had a $75 million development proposal for Peel Health Campus and a 60-year contract as part of its contract negotiations. That same Liberal Party
preselected Health Solutions executive director shared a campaign officer with
the then Minister for Health, Kim Hames. It was absolutely cooked. The stench
of poor management of Peel —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please!
Ms A. SANDERSON : Let us
just always remember what Liberal Party members are like and what is in their
DNA . When it became too much and they realised the stench coming out of
Peel Health Campus, they had to undertake an inquiry and ask Ramsey Health Care
to come in and rescue them. Ramsey has done an excellent job of steadying the
ship, fixing the mistakes and securing staff. Staff are much, much happier.
We are now months away from giving
the community what it wants, and that is a publicly run hospital. I am very
pleased that we are on track and from August this year, Peel Health Campus will
be back in public hands and fully state run. So far, 95 per cent of the nurses,
allied health workers and patient support workers have signed up to working in the public sector. This week, doctors
will be offered permanent contracts to transition to the public sector .
They will be the first doctors to transition to permanency in the Western Australian
state public health system in many, many years, under a commitment to give
doctors more certainty and enhanced entitlements. Employees will receive a range of enhanced entitlements as public
sector employees, including four weeks parental leave, enhanced casual
loading, 13 weeks long service leave, additional personal leave, paid family
and domestic violence leave, superannuation, and up to 12 weeks unpaid parental
leave. For staff coming into the South Metropolitan Health Service who have
prior service, continuous long service leave and personal leave will also be
recognised upon transition. The Western Australian public know that the
Liberals cannot be trusted to keep health in public hands. It wants to
privatise it, and the record on Peel is only one of many examples of its
appalling management of the health system.
and her passion for public health care and the provision of public
health care to her community. Western Australians know that it is only a WA
Labor government that will protect public
services and protect public health care. I am proud of this government's
commitment and record on quality public healthcare services in Western Australia.
Since coming to government, we have been laser focused on supporting our public
healthcare system and our public healthcare workers to do what they do best, and
that is to deliver quality care to anyone who walks through the door, no matter
their postcode, income or health insurance status. They do so, day in, day out.
It is only this government that has a track record of providing those services
that are needed for the community by the public system. This level of scrutiny,
integrity and competence is needed to keep our health system in check.
I will remind members of what it was
like under the former government in our new series called ''remember
when''. Today we are ''remembering when'' those opposite
privatised Peel Health Campus in 1997, providing a 20-year contract to Health
Solutions. It was those opposite who persisted in defending Health Solutions
despite rejection from the community. It defended inappropriate —
Several members interjected.
Ms A. SANDERSON : They are
sensitive!
This is what the
opposition stands for. It defended Health Solutions' inappropriate
admissions to hospital to enhance and
embellish private operator payments. It defended incentives paid to staff to
increase or artificially raise the number of patients. Those opposite
continued to defend the Liberal Party preselection of Tony Solin, a Health
Solutions spin doctor and a close associate of the chairman.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please.
Members.
Mr D.A. Templeman interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for
Mandurah, I just ask that you to try to contain yourself.
Ms A. SANDERSON : It
preselected a senior executive from Health Solutions to run against the sitting
member for Mandurah when Health Solutions
had a $75 million development proposal for Peel Health Campus and a 60-year contract as part of its contract negotiations. That same Liberal Party
preselected Health Solutions executive director shared a campaign officer with
the then Minister for Health, Kim Hames. It was absolutely cooked. The stench
of poor management of Peel —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order, please!
Ms A. SANDERSON : Let us
just always remember what Liberal Party members are like and what is in their
DNA . When it became too much and they realised the stench coming out of
Peel Health Campus, they had to undertake an inquiry and ask Ramsey Health Care
to come in and rescue them. Ramsey has done an excellent job of steadying the
ship, fixing the mistakes and securing staff. Staff are much, much happier.
We are now months away from giving
the community what it wants, and that is a publicly run hospital. I am very
pleased that we are on track and from August this year, Peel Health Campus will
be back in public hands and fully state run. So far, 95 per cent of the nurses,
allied health workers and patient support workers have signed up to working in the public sector. This week, doctors
will be offered permanent contracts to transition to the public sector .
They will be the first doctors to transition to permanency in the Western Australian
state public health system in many, many years, under a commitment to give
doctors more certainty and enhanced entitlements. Employees will receive a range of enhanced entitlements as public
sector employees, including four weeks parental leave, enhanced casual
loading, 13 weeks long service leave, additional personal leave, paid family
and domestic violence leave, superannuation, and up to 12 weeks unpaid parental
leave. For staff coming into the South Metropolitan Health Service who have
prior service, continuous long service leave and personal leave will also be
recognised upon transition. The Western Australian public know that the
Liberals cannot be trusted to keep health in public hands. It wants to
privatise it, and the record on Peel is only one of many examples of its
appalling management of the health system.
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