❓ This WA parliamentary question seeks a comparison of speech pathology waiting times in Mandurah, Bunbury, Rockingham, and Fremantle. The answer provides specific waiting times for acute and child development services in each region, highlighting increasing demand and strategies to manage waitlists.
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Will the Minister provide a comparison of waiting times for speech pathology in Mandurah compared to Bunbury, Rockingham and Fremantle?
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14 September 2004
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Minister for Health
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- Acute services to hospital inpatients and outpatients, and - Services to children who are at risk of or are experiencing difficulties in their development of speech and language. Acute Services In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Services to children who are at risk of or are experiencing difficulties in their development of speech and language. Acute Services In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Acute Services In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Services to children who are at risk of or are experiencing difficulties in their development of speech and language. Acute Services In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Acute Services In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Mandurah region, inpatients presenting at Murray District Hospital with swallowing problems are seen within 24 hours of referral. Inpatients presenting with communication difficulties are seen within 3-5 days of referral. Adult outpatient referrals to Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre wait 4.5 weeks for a service. For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
For inpatient/outpatient services in the Bunbury region, adults receive immediate attention for swallowing problems and wait between 6 to 8 months for voice problems. In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Rockingham region, adult inpatients receive immediate attention and outpatients wait less than a month for services at Rockingham/Kwinana District Hospital. Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Child Development Services In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Bunbury region, children aged zero to 5 years have an average waitlist time of 1 to 2 months, while the waiting time for school aged children is described as ?variable? depending on the priority of the problem and the ability to access children in the school environment. In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In Fremantle, the wait times are between 5 and 8.5 months. In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Murray Shire, the waiting time for Speech Pathology intervention is 4.5 months. At Mandurah Community Health and Development Centre, the waiting time for paediatric speech pathology services is an average of 11.5 months. In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In the Rockingham/Kwinana area, the average wait time for paediatric Speech Pathology services is 11 months. Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
Over recent years, there has been a growing demand for Speech Pathology services to support children?s speech and language development. Population growth, increased awareness of the importance of speech and language, limited capacity to pay for private services and greater complexity of cases have all contributed to longer waiting times. A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
A number of strategies are in place in Bunbury, Peel, Rockingham/Kwinana and Fremantle to manage and address the long waiting times, including: - Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Working with mothers and other carers of young children to promote healthy speech and language development and prevent the need for therapy. - Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Advice Clinics have been established to enable preliminary assessment of priority and provide interim management strategies. - Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Use of group therapy. - Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Priority streaming for individual therapy (successful in reducing waiting time for high priority children). - Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Criteria for placement in individual therapy. In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
In addition, South West Area Health Service has the following strategies: - Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Therapy Assistants to run programs developed by the Speech Therapist, allowing capacity for the Speech Therapist to continue to see new clients. - Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
- Capacity building and skills development with school teachers enabling them to undertake assessments. These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
These strategies have been successful in ensuring that wait times do not deteriorate when there are increasing numbers of referrals.
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