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In response to a PSA request for details of how SA Health is intending to implement budget initiatives. The PSA received the following response from Dr. Tony Sherbon Chief Executive SA Health:-

“Specifically in relation to each of the initiatives announced:

Review of Out Patient Services. SA Health will establish a Reference Group, chaired by the Chief Executive, SA Health, which will also include union representation;
Consolidation of Corporate Services and the establishment of Adelaide Health Service (AHS). Consultation in relation to this initiative has already begun and will continue via AHS Industrial Liaison Forum (ILF) until the new service is established;
Standardisation of car parking fees. Consultation over implementation of the new fee structure will take place through the regional ILF's;
Consolidation of pharmacy, medical imaging, medical equipment sterilisation and biomedical engineering. Formal and specific consultation mechanisms will be established as part of the project; and
Community Recovery Centres. 

This project will be led by the Mental Health Unit, SA Health. Consultative mechanisms will be established as part of the project.

The letter assured the PSA that SA Health is committed to consulting with the PSA as per Clause 25 of the 2010 Enterprise Agreement.

Subsequently PSA has received a letter from David Swan, Executive Director Operations Division proposing to establish a formal consultative committee regarding the consolidation of Medical Imaging Services across the Public Sector.

Members interested in contributing to this process please contact the PSA.

3 November 2010