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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Women's and Children's Hospital

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:53): Can the minister confirm for the record whether there was a budgetary figure that was announced in relation to the consultation by clinician specialists?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:53): I thank the honourable member for reminding me of that aspect of her question. We have committed $600,000 to help backfill medical staff during this first consultation phase. I do want to stress that this is going to be a multistage process, and this backfilling is in relation to the first stage only. In that context, I will quote a comment on the radio, I think by the chief executive of the Women's and Children's Hospital, in which she said:

I have personally been involved in five new builds and redevelopments in my career so far, both in Australia and in the United Kingdom. In all of those, doctors have been engaged in the planning process in the same way as we are intending with our 100 project user groups and clinical advisory groups. However, because we take clinical engagement so seriously, we are funding some medical time and I think that it is important to note there is no precedent worldwide that we have found, but we are putting some money into it because we do take it so seriously.

I take it from the honourable chief executive officer's comments that this is not standard practice in Australia, so I think a $600,000 investment to backfill staff, plus a strong commitment to engagement in what I would call a network of advisory groups, demonstrates the commitment of the network to solid consultation with clinicians.

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