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❓ Question regarding Armadale Hospital locking open wards due to overflow of involuntary mental health patients, specifically seeking data on methamphetamine involvement in these cases and emergency department presentations. The Minister's answer indicates no such statistics are formally kept.

AnsweredQoN 3322Legislative Council

Asked

12 August 2015

Member

Hon Stephen Dawson

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Mental Health

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From 1 July 2014 to 31 January 2015 there were 57 occasions when Armadale Hospital had to lock the doors of open wards because of the overflow of involuntary mental health patients from secure wards, and I ask: (a) are any statistics held on whether these closures were due to patients being affected by methamphetamine; (b) are statistics held on what the number of emergency department presentations were due to patients affected by methamphetamine; and (c) if yes to (b), will the Minister please provide numbers for the past three years?

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Answered

17 September 2015

Responded by

Minister for Mental Health

Response time

36 days

(a-b) No.
(c) Not applicable.
While individual patients case notes may identify if the patient was affected by methamphetamines, statistics are not kept which collate all such cases.

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