Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I am glad for that clarification. I had thought the Prime Minister, when he was promising to fix the hospital system, was talking about outcomes, not inputs. The same report from the Institute of Health and Welfare indicates the median waiting time for elective surgery across Australia was 34 days last financial year—two days more than the previous financial year. Again in the ACT it is more than double that—72 days wait for elective surgery. What does the minister suggest that I say to my constituents, who were promised a system that would be fixed by now but instead have a system which is actually falling apart?