Ambulance Services

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:26): Supplementary question: the minister hasn't answered the question, so will I remind him what it was. It was—

The PRESIDENT: No, this is a supplementary. Ask the question.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: The information the minister—

The PRESIDENT: Ask the question, please.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: The minister mentioned the CEO. Are the CEO and the minister committed to fully implementing all three report recommendations in full, and can the minister identify the additional resources he was referring to?

An honourable member interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:26): If I could be given the opportunity to answer a question without hectoring, then perhaps the honourable member could hear me answer this question for the third time. The fact of the matter is that David Place, a great chief executive officer who was recently awarded national recognition for his exemplary service, is actively pursuing the response to the review that he himself commissioned. This is a chief executive who is determined to drive quality and safety. In response to that review—

The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The leader will be quiet.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —the chief executive, David Place, has identified an opportunity to strengthen the clinical input into cases, and that is through the clinical telephone assessment service.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Opposition Whip is out of order.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: It is a service that commenced late in 2020 and gives a paramedic the opportunity to speak to a complex patient and make a full clinical assessment sooner. It will help give us better line of sight in terms of the conditions the patient is responding to—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Leader of the Opposition and the Opposition Whip are not helping.

The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Leader, I am addressing you. You and your whip are not helping.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: As I said, the clinical telephone assessment service is an opportunity to improve the response. The review is going to the clinical governance committee for full consideration of its recommendations and appropriate response.