❓ A parliamentary question seeks details on a Health Department report regarding maintenance needs in WA's public hospitals. The response clarifies the report's findings and costs, disputing a specific backlog figure and outlining a 10-year maintenance projection.
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(1) Did the Health Department of Western Australia commission consultants Symonds Facilities and Project Management to report on the maintenance needs of Western Australia’s public hospital system? (2) If yes, what was the cost of that report, and when was it received by HDWA? (3) Did the report identify a backlog of about $120m of maintenance within the system? (4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS
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I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(2) If yes, what was the cost of that report, and when was it received by HDWA? (3) Did the report identify a backlog of about $120m of maintenance within the system? (4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(3) Did the report identify a backlog of about $120m of maintenance within the system? (4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(2) If yes, what was the cost of that report, and when was it received by HDWA? (3) Did the report identify a backlog of about $120m of maintenance within the system? (4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(3) Did the report identify a backlog of about $120m of maintenance within the system? (4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(4) If not, what amount did it identify? (5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(5) What strategies does the Government have to deal with this problem? Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
Hon PETER FOSS replied: I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
I was asked this question yesterday, but I did not have the answer at the time. (1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(1) Yes. Symonds Facilities and Project Management was commissioned by the Health Department to project manage a number of consultants undertaking a statewide deferred maintenance liability review-condition audit. (2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(2) The total cost for all consultants was approximately $964 000 and the final report was received in August 1998. (3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(3) No. (4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
(4)-(5) It is not possible to allocate any of this to what would be called a backlog. The figure in the report of $277.3m is an estimate of what was needed to complete the required maintenance of all assets as at January 1998 and to continue to meet the anticipated maintenance requirements of those assets until January 2008. Data for the report was collected in 1997-98 with the intent of providing indicative maintenance requirements based on known and pending problems over a 10-year period for strategic planning purposes. A specific amount was not quoted for a backlog in major maintenance, but it was projected that an amount of $277m would be required over a 10-year period to ensure an ongoing manageable standard of maintenance. For example, the Avon health facility is reasonably new, and the report indicated that some $3.3m would need to be budgeted over the 10-year review period to maintain it at an acceptable level.
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