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❓ Ms Mettam requests detailed data on hospital bed availability and access block across WA health services for the 2020-2021 financial year, referencing a previous question and answer. The answer refers to another Question on Notice.

AnsweredQoN 637Legislative Assembly

Asked

9 September 2025

Member

Ms Libby Mettam

Portfolio

Planning and Lands; Housing and Works; Health Infrastructure

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I refer to the answer to Question 155, from then Health Minister Roger Cook, on 16 September 2021, and ask for the following data in line with that which was readily provided in the answer to Question 155. I further refer to all public hospitals, including public hospitals with private operators, and the availability of beds at those hospitals, and I ask : (a) for the North Metropolitan Health Service: (i) what was the average number of daily active beds for each month in the 2020-2021 financial year across each hospital ; (ii) what was the total bed capacity for the same time period as (a)(i) for each hospital; and (iii) how many days each month did each hospital experience access block of more than ten percent of beds within the emergency department; (b) for the South Metropolitan Health Service : (i) What was the average number of daily active beds for each month in the 2020-2021 financial year across each hospital; (ii) what was the total bed capacity for the same time period as (b)(i) for each hospital; and (iii) how many days each month did each hospital experience access block of more than ten percent of beds within the emergency department; (c) for the East Metropolitan Health Service: (i) What was the average number of daily active beds for each month in the 2020-2021 financial year across each hospital; (ii) what was the total bed capacity for the same time period as (c)(i) for each hospital; and (iii) how many days each month did each hospital experience access block of more than ten percent of beds within the emergency department; (d) for the Child and Adolescent Health Service: (i) What was the average number of daily active beds for each month in the 2020-2021 financial year across each hospital; (ii) what was the total bed capacity for the same time period as (d)(i) for each hospital; and (iii) how many days each month did each hospital experience access block of more than ten percent of beds within the emergency department; and (e) for the Western Australian Country Health Service: (i) What was the average number of daily active beds for each month in the 2020-2021 financial year across each hospital; (ii) what was the total bed capacity for the same time period as (e)(i) for each hospital; and; and (iii) how many days each month did each hospital experience access block of more than ten percent of beds within the emergency department?