Tuesday, 29 October 2024

My Health Record

David LIMBRICK (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (22:37): (1221) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Minister for Health. I recently spent some time at the Cranbourne Park shopping centre speaking with constituents and listening to the issues that they were concerned about. One resident who required regular blood testing due to a kidney transplant expressed surprise that when they travelled interstate to New South Wales or Queensland results were consistently uploaded to My Health Record within 2 to 48 hours, but in Victoria it consistently takes two weeks for these same results to be uploaded. I am not sure if this is an aberration or something that many people are experiencing with diagnostic testing. If it is an issue that many people are experiencing, it really needs to be fixed. My request for the minister is to review any data or speak to the relevant stakeholders to assess our performance against benchmarks interstate, and if there is an issue, to implement a strategy to improve the performance.