Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
2019-02-27 Daily Xml

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Hibbert Review

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (15:07): Supplementary: what resources has the minister allocated to implement the Hibbert report? How much will the implementation of the recommendations cost? What is the time frame to have all recommendations in place?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:07): I have met with the CEO of the Ambulance Service. I did that within an hour or so of him having received the report. As I have already indicated to the council, he has made public comments that current indications are that SAAS is not under-resourced for its current workload. We are working on a resourcing plan.

Considering that the work that the SAAS executive team was doing in relation to improving clinical management started from early December and, if you like, parallel with work on the resourcing plan going forward, I am sure that those elements are being, shall we say, articulated. In other words, the SAAS executive is planning for an appropriate set of resources to deal with both the clinical management issues and the workload issues going forward.