A member of parliament asks the Minister for Health about staffing and funding for emergency medicine consultants and registrars at three peripheral hospitals. The Minister defers answering the question.

AnsweredQoN 631Legislative Council
Asked
27 September 2001
Portfolio
Health

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EMERGENCY MEDICINE CONSULTANTS
(1) How many emergency medicine consultants and registrars will be necessary to maintain 24-hour, seven-day a week emergency and casualty services at each of the following peripheral hospitals: Swan District Hospital, Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital and Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital? (2) Have procedures been commenced to recruit those emergency medicine consultants and registrars for each of the three peripheral hospitals? If not, when will they commence? (3) Do the hospitals expect to be able to recruit the required number of emergency medicine consultants and registrars? (4) What is the estimated cost of employing those emergency medicine consultants and registrars at each peripheral hospital? (5) Are those costs provided for in the 2001-02 budget? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH

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I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
(2) Have procedures been commenced to recruit those emergency medicine consultants and registrars for each of the three peripheral hospitals? If not, when will they commence? (3) Do the hospitals expect to be able to recruit the required number of emergency medicine consultants and registrars? (4) What is the estimated cost of employing those emergency medicine consultants and registrars at each peripheral hospital? (5) Are those costs provided for in the 2001-02 budget? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
(3) Do the hospitals expect to be able to recruit the required number of emergency medicine consultants and registrars? (4) What is the estimated cost of employing those emergency medicine consultants and registrars at each peripheral hospital? (5) Are those costs provided for in the 2001-02 budget? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
(4) What is the estimated cost of employing those emergency medicine consultants and registrars at each peripheral hospital? (5) Are those costs provided for in the 2001-02 budget? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
(5) Are those costs provided for in the 2001-02 budget? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.
I thank the member for some notice of this question and I ask that it be placed on notice.

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