❓ Question regarding funding allocations to individual hospitals from the Central Wait List Bureau for elective surgery in 2000-01. The Minister provides the total allocation but not the breakdown per hospital, explaining the funding model.
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I refer to the minister’s failure to advise the House on previous occasions of the Central Wait List Bureau’s funding allocations to individual hospitals for 2000-01. (1) What is the total Central Wait List Bureau funding allocation for waiting list elective surgery for 2000-01? (2) How much has been allocated to each hospital in the metropolitan area, including the Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses? Mr DAY
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(1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(1) What is the total Central Wait List Bureau funding allocation for waiting list elective surgery for 2000-01? (2) How much has been allocated to each hospital in the metropolitan area, including the Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses? Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(2) How much has been allocated to each hospital in the metropolitan area, including the Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses? Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(1) What is the total Central Wait List Bureau funding allocation for waiting list elective surgery for 2000-01? (2) How much has been allocated to each hospital in the metropolitan area, including the Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses? Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(2) How much has been allocated to each hospital in the metropolitan area, including the Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses? Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
Mr DAY replied: (1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
(1) The decision made by the Government about two years ago to allocate $125m for additional elective surgery over five years was very successful in substantially reducing the waiting time and also the number of people waiting for elective surgery. The allocation for the current financial year to the Central Wait List Bureau for waiting list elective surgery is $22m. (2) Allocations are not made to hospitals at the beginning of each financial year on a lump sum basis; it depends on the completion of the work. All the health services throughout the State which are able to comply with the business rules that have been established in the 2000-01 purchasing policy for the wait list strategy have access to those funds. In other words, as they complete the work they have access to the funds out of the $22m that is available this year and the $125m that will be available over five years. As a result of this policy, and much better usage of public hospital facilities, at the end of October there has been a further reduction in the number of people waiting for elective surgery at teaching hospitals to below 10 000 for the first time in many years, to the current level of 9 900. This overall policy has been very effective and it is one of the policies for which this Government can take a great deal of credit as far as our health system is concerned.
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