❓ Question regarding pre-election commitment to Kalamunda Hospital redevelopment and concerns about maintaining obstetric services. The Minister responds by detailing meetings and plans for the hospital, including GP collocation and capital works.
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I refer the minister to the Government’s pre-election commitment to spend $5.5 million on the redevelopment of Kalamunda District Community Hospital, and to his predecessor’s media statement dated 23 May 2003 in which he stated - . . . the State Government was committed to a major redevelopment of the hospital . . . (1) Is the minister aware of the strong concerns held by members of the local community that obstetric services may not be maintained at the hospital? (2) Will the minister now commit to ensuring that the full range of services currently available at the Kalamunda hospital, including obstetric services, will be maintained? (3) Is the minister now in a position to advise when he expects the redevelopment will be completed? I acknowledge that the minister visited the hospital a couple of weeks ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY
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(1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(2) Will the minister now commit to ensuring that the full range of services currently available at the Kalamunda hospital, including obstetric services, will be maintained? (3) Is the minister now in a position to advise when he expects the redevelopment will be completed? I acknowledge that the minister visited the hospital a couple of weeks ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(3) Is the minister now in a position to advise when he expects the redevelopment will be completed? I acknowledge that the minister visited the hospital a couple of weeks ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(2) Will the minister now commit to ensuring that the full range of services currently available at the Kalamunda hospital, including obstetric services, will be maintained? (3) Is the minister now in a position to advise when he expects the redevelopment will be completed? I acknowledge that the minister visited the hospital a couple of weeks ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(3) Is the minister now in a position to advise when he expects the redevelopment will be completed? I acknowledge that the minister visited the hospital a couple of weeks ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
(1)-(3) As the member has rightly identified, I went to the hospital about two weeks ago for a 7.00 am meeting. As I recollect, I met with the general practitioners who work in the area and who also have an interest in collocating their GP services at the hospital campus in Kalamunda. I also met with local government people and some other stakeholders. I cannot identify them off the top of my head, as I did not receive notice of the question. We had very positive discussions about three issues. Firstly, we discussed the notion of the general practitioners from that area participating in a collocated medical clinic on the site. That would mean, given the clinic’s proposed size, that primary health care could be offered to people, and the range of services and the hours at which they were offered could be maximised. Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr M.F. Board: It sounds like the policy you just knocked a while ago. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We are doing it. The coalition did not do it when it was in Government. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was not knocking the proposal I am working on and discussing with clinicians in this State to achieve better outcomes, particularly in the primary health care area. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I went to Kalamunda because that proposal has merit. I wanted to have first-hand discussions with the general practitioners about how we can best provide health care services for people in this outer metropolitan area. I hope that the Kalamunda collocation can be developed as a model to ensure a full range of GP services is available, including out-of-hours GP services that can be linked with the local hospital. That is what we are trying to achieve today in a very practical sense, unlike the coalition Government, which circulated discussion papers in 1998 and a further paper in 2000 to talk about it when it had the power to do something about it but did nothing. The coalition Government allocated no money whatsoever because the policy to which we have just referred was uncosted. On the other hand, the outcome of my meeting with doctors in Kalamunda was a commitment from me that the land would be made available on the Department of Health site at the hospital for a GP clinic. We discussed a three-part proposition, the first of which was to make the land available so that doctors could invest in the site. Last Friday in Sydney I met with Tony Abbott, the federal Minister for Health. In the same way that we worked cooperatively to improve cancer services for people in Western Australia through the provision of the new linear accelerators at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, given the federal Government’s responsibility for primary health care - that is, GP health care - we discussed whether federal money could be made available to assist with these sorts of initiatives to provide practical health outcomes for people, particularly in outer metropolitan areas such as Kalamunda. I gave an undertaking that the State Government would make the land available to those people on appropriate commercial terms, which is what they expected, so that they could invest in the Kalamunda Community District Hospital site to develop their own new GP facilities. That, of course, is part of a far broader vision. The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
The second issue I discussed with the GPs - this relates directly to the member’s question - was the capital works money set aside in the budget, which is in the order of $5 million. It might have been $5.5 million; I forget exactly how much it is, but it is provided for in the budget. We told the GPs that the money was available and there was no question that it would be spent on the Kalamunda hospital. Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.H.D. Day: What about obstetrics? Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am coming to that. The second point was our need to know exactly for which purpose the stakeholders wanted to refurbish the hospital. We made a commitment that the money was available for refurbishing but we must know what the hospital would be refurbished for. That was the third point we discussed at that meeting. In simple terms, we asked what would take place at the Kalamunda hospital and what sort of configuration would be adopted. Enormous emphasis will be placed on that hospital through the GPs on community health, primary health care, extended health care arrangements and many others. I said to those GPs that I would meet the first two parts of the three-part equation, which is to make the land and the capital works money available, but they must provide me with the configuration of what would be provided from the hospital. I have not yet received their proposals for the configuration. The ball is in their court and I am awaiting their response.
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