Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move Greens amendment (1) on sheet 5606 revised:

(1)    Page 2 (after line 2), after clause 3, insert:

4 Review of operation of Act

        (1)    The Minister for Health and Ageing must cause an independent review of the operation of this Act to be undertaken as soon as possible after each anniversary of the commencement of this Act, for a period of three consecutive years.

        (2)    The review is to consider and report on the impact on public hospitals of the amendments made by this Act, including the number of episodes of care, the impact on operating costs and the impact on elective surgery waiting lists.

        (3)    The person undertaking the review must give the Minister a written report of the review, and the Minister must cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of receiving the report.

This relates to the review of the operation of the act. A new amendment has been circulated in the chamber because we slightly revised the previous amendment to ensure that it is the Minister for Health and Ageing who initiates or causes the independent review to occur. This is the review that we have been talking about of the operation of the act to ascertain any impacts of these changes on the public hospital system.