Proposed Sale Of Clare Holland House
don't Sell Our Hospice
Why mess with things when it's working perfectly well?
The citizens of Canberra will be very poorly served if the ACT Government sells Clare Holland House to the Little Company of Mary healthcare Ltd, as it intends to do as a consequence of purchasing public health facilities at Calvary Hospital at Bruce.
Little company of Mary Healthcare Ltd has agreed to sell the ACT Government its public health facilities at Bruce at a fair market price. To sweeten the deal Little Company of Mary Healthcare Ltd have demanded the right to purchase the lakeside land upon which Clare Holland House, Canberra's only hospice, is located. Because Little Company of Mary Healthcare Ltd is receiving full market value for the facilities it owns at Bruce (which by the way was given to that company by the Australian taxpayer) there is no need for the ACT government to provide a further inducement to bring about the sale.
If the ACT Government sells the only hospice in Canberra to this corporation it will have created an unnecessary monopoly which will keep any other organisation wishing to provide palliative care in the Territory out of that field. This is not in the best interest of the people of Canberra.
Currently, the ACT’s palliative care system is considered to be amongst the best in Australia. This will certainly not be the case if the ACT Government creates the monopoly it is intending.
We should all take this opportunity to contact our local members and ask them to ensure that Clare Holland House remains in public ownership.
