The ACT government is unlikely to keep a Labor election commitment to increase endoscopy procedures by an extra 5000 a year by 2023 as it has yet to significantly increase capacity with only half of the promised funding being allocated.
ACT Labor committed to spend $16 million over three years in the 2020 campaign to upgrade and expand existing endoscopy facilities at Canberra Hospital. This commitment was expected to deliver 5000 extra procedures a year by 2023.
However, the total number of procedures completed in the last financial year was only just over 4000 and, so far, the government has only allocated $8.7 million.
