Australian Capital Territory
Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2007 (No 2)*
Notifiable Instrument NI2007–147
made under the
Financial Management Act 1996, s19D (Amendment of Performance Criteria)

1	Name of instrument

This instrument is the Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2007 (No 2)

2	Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after notification.

3	Notice of Decisions

The performance criteria for the 2006-2007 financial year are amended as set out in the schedule.

4	Statement of reasons for amendments

	Section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996 provides that the Minister may by instrument amend performance criteria.  The current performance measure in Output Class 1.3 (see attached schedule), is unable be reported and is therefore being deleted.  

Katy Gallagher MLA
Minister for Health

14 May 2007

Australian Capital Territory
Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2007 (No 2)
Notifiable instrument NI2007—147
made under the
Financial Management Act 1996, s19D Amendment of Performance Criteria

I amend the following performance criteria for the 2006-07 financial year.
Department	Output Class and Output	Description of performance criteria	Targets	
			2006-07
Budget papers	2006-07
Amended target	
					
ACT Health	Output Class 1:  Health and Community Care
Output 1.3:  Community Health Services	Mean waiting time from referral to service delivery, for Allied Health Priority One clients by service type (Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Social Work)

Mean waiting time from referral to service delivery, for Allied Health Priority Two clients by service type:
i)  Nutrition	2 days

3 weeks	Delete measure

Delete 	
		ii) Occupational Therapy
iii) Physiotherapy
iv) Podiatry
v)  Social Work	15 weeks
10 weeks
6 weeks
2 weeks	measure	

Section 19D - Statement of Reasons for Amendment

This statement outlines the reasons for the amendment of performance criteria under section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996. 

The data to measure this indicator is not yet collected in the information system used by ACT Health in a manner to enable an accurate presentation of results.  

In addition, Community Health is changing the process of referrals to community based allied health services in order to improve services to clients.  These changes will provide a single entry point into the system.  The changes have an impact on the way data is collected and extracted from data sources.  This indicator will be reported in future years when referral issues and data extraction issues have been resolved.

Establishment of a manual system to collect this data would be time consuming, costly and may not be sufficiently robust to meet audit scrutiny.