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Reorganisation of
Health Services
Council proposed
The Capital Territory Health Commission should
retain its present structure and the Health Services
Council should be reorganised to achieve more repre
sentative community and staff involvement, according
to the CTHC submission to the ACT Health Services
Task Force.
The closing date for submissions was to have been
Thursday, but the chairman of the task force, Pro
fessor John Molony, said then that it would be
postponed because of the recent mail strike.
The commission's recommendation was for a
council membership of nine, comprising a chairman
appointed by the Minister for Health, four repre
sentatives of professional, consumer and other groups
appointed by the minister, and two each from the
House of Assembly and the Trades and Labour
Council.
The commission also recommended that the
council operate under a different name.
| In a foreword to the submission, the chairman of'
| the commission, Dr Ken Doust, rejected criticism that
the commission was unresponsive to community
wishes.
It believed there was no significant community
disapproval of the health services available in the
ACT, and that criticism stemmed mainly from indi
viduals and groups working outside the commission's
extensive consultative and advisory machinery.
| The commission did acknowledge the need for
more visible community and staff involvement in its
j deliberations.
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