Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I'm pleased to add to the Prime Minister's answer. The very simple response is that what was done was a matter of course. The AHPPC, which was reporting through the Chief Medical Officer to the secretary of Health, who reports to the Minister for Health, used an ordinary procedure—that is, the ordinary case event. More broadly, though, what we have seen is four key pillars established as part of this response: one, a public hospitals agreement; two, a private hospitals agreement; three, a surge workforce approach; and, four, a testing approach for every facility in Australia that needs it. All of those four pillars were critically developed in conjunction with, in many cases, the leadership of the minister for aged care. (Time expired)

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