Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure Expansion Plans on Staff's Remuneration

Debated in Parliament on 16 Aug 2016.

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K Thanaletchimi questioned how healthcare infrastructure expansion would be funded without affecting staff remuneration, given the risk of healthcare clusters using reserves to cover excess capacity costs.
Gan Kim Yong stated that the Ministry of Health fully funds development costs for healthcare infrastructure, including spare capacity for future expansion, to prevent impact on staff pay.
He added that spaces for future use are designed for interim productivity to minimize holding costs, and MOH will assist with separate funding if institutions face difficulties.

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K Thanaletchimi

Ms K Thanaletchimi asked the Minister for Health with the infrastructure expansion plans of current and future healthcare institutions, how will the expansion be funded so that the remuneration of healthcare staff will not be affected when the healthcare clusters have to dig into their reserves to fund current excess capacities.

Gan Kim Yong

The Ministry of Health (MOH) fully funds the development costs of healthcare infrastructure at our public healthcare institutions. This includes the cost of building in spare capacity to cater for future expansion to meet increases in demand.

Spaces catering to future expansion are designed so that the institutions are able to put them to productive uses in the interim. This minimises the holding cost associated with such spare capacity. When institutions encounter difficulties doing so, MOH will work with them on possible solutions and assist them with separate funding to defray these additional costs if necessary.

Therefore, the cost of expansion of our healthcare institutions is separately funded and should not affect the funding for the remuneration of our healthcare staff.

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K Thanaletchimi questioned how healthcare infrastructure expansion would be funded without affecting staff remuneration, given the risk of healthcare clusters using reserves to cover excess capacity costs.
Gan Kim Yong stated that the Ministry of Health fully funds development costs for healthcare infrastructure, including spare capacity for future expansion, to prevent impact on staff pay.
He added that spaces for future use are designed for interim productivity to minimize holding costs, and MOH will assist with separate funding if institutions face difficulties.

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Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure Expansion Plans on Staff's Remuneration

Debated in Parliament on 16 Aug 2016.

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K Thanaletchimi questioned how healthcare infrastructure expansion would be funded without affecting staff remuneration, given the risk of healthcare clusters using reserves to cover excess capacity costs.
Gan Kim Yong stated that the Ministry of Health fully funds development costs for healthcare infrastructure, including spare capacity for future expansion, to prevent impact on staff pay.
He added that spaces for future use are designed for interim productivity to minimize holding costs, and MOH will assist with separate funding if institutions face difficulties.

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K Thanaletchimi

Gan Kim Yong

Therefore, the cost of expansion of our healthcare institutions is separately funded and should not affect the funding for the remuneration of our healthcare staff.

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K Thanaletchimi questioned how healthcare infrastructure expansion would be funded without affecting staff remuneration, given the risk of healthcare clusters using reserves to cover excess capacity costs.
Gan Kim Yong stated that the Ministry of Health fully funds development costs for healthcare infrastructure, including spare capacity for future expansion, to prevent impact on staff pay.
He added that spaces for future use are designed for interim productivity to minimize holding costs, and MOH will assist with separate funding if institutions face difficulties.

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Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure Expansion Plans on Staff's Remuneration

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K Thanaletchimi

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Impact of Healthcare Infrastructure Expansion Plans on Staff's Remuneration

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K Thanaletchimi

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