Hon Adele Farina asks about the new contract between the Department of Health and St John Ambulance, specifically regarding quality monitoring, paramedic allocation in rural areas, clinical governance, performance targets, and incident reporting. The Parliamentary Secretary declines to answer due to probity during the contract's development phase.

AnsweredQoN 558Legislative Council
Asked
13 May 2015
Portfolio
Health

QuestionView source ↗

ST JOHN
AMBULANCE — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH — CONTRACT
558. Hon ADELE FARINA to the
parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:
(1) Will the
new contract between the Department of Health and St John Ambulance include
mechanisms for WA Health to monitor the quality of service provided, such as
standards of patient care; staff training and equipment; and effective
mechanisms to monitor these?
(2) Will the new contract include —
(a) a model for
the allocation of paramedics at country sub-centres and mechanisms to monitor
and enforce compliance with the model;
(b) greater clinical governance of
country volunteer services;
(c) quantitative
performance targets for community paramedics and a requirement to report these
to WA Health; and
(d) a requirement
for St John Ambulance to report all severity assessment code 1 clinical
incidents to WA Health?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for
some notice of this question.
(1)–(2)
For reasons of probity, while the contract remains in the development phase,
the details of the proposed future contract cannot be discussed.

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