❓ A parliamentary question addresses the implementation of hearing tests for juveniles at Banksia Hill, focusing on costs, student support, health record management, and access to specialist ENT services both during and after detention. The response outlines existing procedures and referral pathways within the public health system.
AnsweredQoN 5806Legislative Council
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I refer to Ministerial correspondence, Ref: 39-17669, dated 27 June 2012, regarding the Parliamentary Breakfast on the impact of hearing loss in Aboriginal communities, and the hearing testing of all juveniles admitted to Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre, and I ask —
(1) Is the proposed Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Corrective Services and the University of Western Australia at a cost to the Department?
(2) If yes to (1), what is the cost?
(3) Please outline what debriefing and counselling support structures have been put in place to ensure graduate students from the School of Biomedical and Bio molecular and Chemical Sciences, who will perform the screening tests, are not put at risk in a corrective institution environment.
(4) Please provide details of how health records of individual inmates will be managed.
(5) If not outlined in (4), will this support their health care management if inmates move into the adult prison system?
(6) What specific arrangements have been made to provide ear, nose and throat specialist services for those inmates identified as needing tertiary care?
(7) In addition to (6), has an ear, nose and throat surgeon been identified?
(8) Please outline where, and with what frequency ear, nose and throat clinics will be run and surgery be performed.
(9) What measures are in place to ensure continuity of access to care once inmates have been released into the community?
(1) Is the proposed Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Corrective Services and the University of Western Australia at a cost to the Department?
(2) If yes to (1), what is the cost?
(3) Please outline what debriefing and counselling support structures have been put in place to ensure graduate students from the School of Biomedical and Bio molecular and Chemical Sciences, who will perform the screening tests, are not put at risk in a corrective institution environment.
(4) Please provide details of how health records of individual inmates will be managed.
(5) If not outlined in (4), will this support their health care management if inmates move into the adult prison system?
(6) What specific arrangements have been made to provide ear, nose and throat specialist services for those inmates identified as needing tertiary care?
(7) In addition to (6), has an ear, nose and throat surgeon been identified?
(8) Please outline where, and with what frequency ear, nose and throat clinics will be run and surgery be performed.
(9) What measures are in place to ensure continuity of access to care once inmates have been released into the community?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
18 September 2012
Responded by
Minister for Education representing the Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
35 days
(1) The Department of Corrective Services (the Department) advises that there is no cost involved.
(2) Not applicable.
(3) As with all external service providers, the University of Western Australia (UWA) students and their supervisor will complete the mandatory security orientation package and will be operating within a supervised area. In terms of clinical support and debrief that is the responsibility of the UWA Audiology Department.
(4) Management of patient health records in the Department's Health Services directorate are governed by relevant Health Services Departmental policies. As with all patients in the Department, any health related information will be entered into their record by the attending clinician.
(5) The patient health record is electronic which facilitates immediate sharing of information between sites ensuring continuity of care.
(6) As with all patients in the Department, the public health system is available for tertiary referral. In this instance Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) juvenile referrals will be sent to Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) and for adult patients, to Royal Perth Hospital (RPH).
(7) This is a hospital decision. All Departmental patients will be attending as public patients.
(8) The ENT clinics and planned surgery schedule is the decision of the specialist at the relevant hospital.
(9) All discharged patients returning to the community are at liberty to access their local health provider of choice (e.g. GPs, Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) etc). As part of discharge planning, if there is an identified health need Departmental health staff complete a referral/discharge summary which is forwarded to an identified service provider. In turn that provider will review the referral and provide follow up as appropriate with the patient.
The Department also has a 1800 telephone line which external clinicians may access for additional health information (with the consent of their patient).
Aboriginal prisoners will have access to the Aboriginal Community Re-entry program whereby community based referrals are facilitated by a local AMS.
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(2) Not applicable.
(3) As with all external service providers, the University of Western Australia (UWA) students and their supervisor will complete the mandatory security orientation package and will be operating within a supervised area. In terms of clinical support and debrief that is the responsibility of the UWA Audiology Department.
(4) Management of patient health records in the Department's Health Services directorate are governed by relevant Health Services Departmental policies. As with all patients in the Department, any health related information will be entered into their record by the attending clinician.
(5) The patient health record is electronic which facilitates immediate sharing of information between sites ensuring continuity of care.
(6) As with all patients in the Department, the public health system is available for tertiary referral. In this instance Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) juvenile referrals will be sent to Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) and for adult patients, to Royal Perth Hospital (RPH).
(7) This is a hospital decision. All Departmental patients will be attending as public patients.
(8) The ENT clinics and planned surgery schedule is the decision of the specialist at the relevant hospital.
(9) All discharged patients returning to the community are at liberty to access their local health provider of choice (e.g. GPs, Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) etc). As part of discharge planning, if there is an identified health need Departmental health staff complete a referral/discharge summary which is forwarded to an identified service provider. In turn that provider will review the referral and provide follow up as appropriate with the patient.
The Department also has a 1800 telephone line which external clinicians may access for additional health information (with the consent of their patient).
Aboriginal prisoners will have access to the Aboriginal Community Re-entry program whereby community based referrals are facilitated by a local AMS.
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