Safer Care Victoria
Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (18:02): (350) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Minister for Health, and it relates to the Safer Care Victoria sentinel events annual report 2021–22. This report has not been released to date. It is 17 months overdue. The last report, for 2020–21, was released in March of last year. The data in these reports are incredibly important. They talk about adverse events that have occurred to patients, and we need that data to understand how the system is operating and what needs to be improved, and to understand the issues within our health services, such as hospitals and the ambulance services. This is critical information that comes to the department. The department has that. They have a report, and we need to see that report. We need to understand, as I said, where the system has failed patients and how adverse outcomes can be prevented in the future.
Victorians, I think, expect timely data to be released, but we know this government has a history of secrecy. I have just been checking, and the latest data on elective surgery waitlists and ambulance response times is now well overdue. It was for the last quarter, 30 June, and it is now 2 August. So we need that information as well. It is critical that we have that in the interests of transparency and the interests of all Victorians. The action I seek is that the minister release this report so that we can understand exactly what is going on within our hospitals and health services around sentinel events.