Chapter:
14 - Health
Mover:
Madeline Northam
Paragraph(s):
7, 11, 26, 73 - 7, 11, 26, 73
Seconder:
Rachel Stephen-Smith
Page Number:
N/A
Source:
My Private Notes


Platform Change

Safe Staffing Levels

Chapter 14. Health

Insert in 'Principles'

7. Labor will ensure that all public health services delivered by and on behalf of the ACT Government are funded and resourced to a level that ensures safe staffing levels can be met at all times. Safe Staffing includes the provision of sufficient staffing numbers to ensure safe systems of work for psychosocial risk management, and the management of workers' exposure to the risk of physical and psychological injury.

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Insert in 'Objectives'

11. Deliver an efficient, cost effective service without compromising standards of care, or the physical and psychosocial safety of health workers.
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Insert in 'Strategies-General'

26. Ensure benchmarking of the health workforce in public health services is undertaken regularly to enable a safe, secure service that meet the needs of Canberrans while ensuring the management of psychosocial and physical risk to workers.

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Insert in 'Strategies-Hospitals'

73.  Ensure that Canberra's public hospitals are funded and resourced for safe staffing levels, enabling a safe, secure service that meets the needs of Canberrans, while ensuring the management of psychosocial and physical risk to workers.

Original Paragraph 7
Labor aims to:
Original Paragraph 11
Deliver an efficient, cost effective service without compromising standards.
Original Paragraph 26
Provide health care professionals who specialise in community medicine.
Original Paragraph 73
Ensure that staff doctors (specialists, salaried and private), have equal status and are subject to scrutiny by the same appointments committee applying the same high standards to all doctors before they can practice at hospitals.