RESIDENTIAL EATING
DISORDER TREATMENT FACILITY
641. Ms L. METTAM to the Minister for Health:
I have a supplementary question. Who
made the decision that a residential facility was not needed in this state?
Ms A.
SANDERSON replied:
Did I say that? At no point did I say
that.
Ms L. Mettam: Yes or no—is
the facility going to be built?
Ms A. SANDERSON: No-one has
said that.
The SPEAKER: You have asked
the question; you cannot change it now. Minister.
Ms A. SANDERSON: The member
has asked the question. No-one has said that. No-one has made that decision. We are working with the commonwealth government on
how we can best deliver the best possible model of care for patients in Western
Australia. That is ultimately what it should be—the best model of care
that gets the best outcomes—should it not? It should not be what the
member for Canning decided was best for those patients. What clinicians and
experts in this field tell us achieves the best outcomes. That is what we will
do. We will deliver a model that provides the best outcomes, not the outcomes
that Andrew Hastie thinks are appropriate.