❓ Mr. Taylor asks about the new burns unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital. The Minister for Health details the unit's features, its establishment, and Professor Fiona Wood's role in its creation, expressing pride in the facility.
AnsweredQoN 185Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
FIONA
STANLEY HOSPITAL — BURNS UNIT
185. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the
Minister for Health:
I have heard positive reports about
the facilities and operations of the new burns unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Can the minister please inform the house about the burns unit?
STANLEY HOSPITAL — BURNS UNIT
185. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the
Minister for Health:
I have heard positive reports about
the facilities and operations of the new burns unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Can the minister please inform the house about the burns unit?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for the question. Of course, he is the
local member where Fiona Stanley Hospital is located so he has a particular
interest. I was at Fiona Stanley Hospital just a few weeks ago, just after the
launch of the burns unit after its transfer from Royal Perth Hospital on 7 February.
I want to relate a little history to members. When we were having discussions
with the health department about what should go where in the split up of our
tertiary hospitals, we talked with Professor Fiona Wood, who was in charge of
the burns unit at Royal Perth Hospital, about where it would be best for her to
be. It was my view that the best location for her would be in the member for
Bateman's electorate at the brand-new Fiona Stanley Hospital, but there
was a little reluctance because the major trauma unit was to stay at Royal
Perth Hospital. I put to Professor Wood that this was a great opportunity for
her and her team—she is already regarded as being one of the best burns
specialists in Australia—to have the best burns system in the world. I
said, ''There's a blank canvas: you go and look at Fiona Stanley
Hospital and work out what you could do to make this the best burns unit in the
world.''
Professor Wood took up that challenge and has created an
amazing burns unit at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital—one that I am
confident has the prospect of doing exactly what we set out to achieve. It has
10 beds, the latest equipment and individual rooms with individually monitored
and adjustable temperatures in those rooms, which is particularly important for
burns patient who are often in severe pain when dressings are being changed. It
also has linkages to theatres that have the same temperature control to cope
with surgery. Patients with severe burns are particularly prone to losing heat,
so it is very important to maintain heat in the theatres for those patients. It
has direct access to the emergency departments downstairs, direct access to the
theatres and direct access upstairs to the helicopter pad. It is all specifically
located to be able to get burns patients in as quickly as is absolutely
possible.
I am very proud of what Professor Fiona Wood has been able to
create. All services linked to the burns unit—not only programs such as
Hospital in the Home to manage burns patient when they go home, but also the
outpatient clinics—are on the same ward, on level 4 of the hospital. On
that level are a gym and rehabilitation area; functional training areas; dining
rooms; two kitchen facilities; interview, treatment, consultation, procedure
and garment-fitting rooms; and health therapy. It is a fantastic new facility,
and I have confidence that with a doctor who I regard as being the best burns
specialist in the world in Professor Fiona Wood we will have one of the best
burns units in the world.
local member where Fiona Stanley Hospital is located so he has a particular
interest. I was at Fiona Stanley Hospital just a few weeks ago, just after the
launch of the burns unit after its transfer from Royal Perth Hospital on 7 February.
I want to relate a little history to members. When we were having discussions
with the health department about what should go where in the split up of our
tertiary hospitals, we talked with Professor Fiona Wood, who was in charge of
the burns unit at Royal Perth Hospital, about where it would be best for her to
be. It was my view that the best location for her would be in the member for
Bateman's electorate at the brand-new Fiona Stanley Hospital, but there
was a little reluctance because the major trauma unit was to stay at Royal
Perth Hospital. I put to Professor Wood that this was a great opportunity for
her and her team—she is already regarded as being one of the best burns
specialists in Australia—to have the best burns system in the world. I
said, ''There's a blank canvas: you go and look at Fiona Stanley
Hospital and work out what you could do to make this the best burns unit in the
world.''
Professor Wood took up that challenge and has created an
amazing burns unit at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital—one that I am
confident has the prospect of doing exactly what we set out to achieve. It has
10 beds, the latest equipment and individual rooms with individually monitored
and adjustable temperatures in those rooms, which is particularly important for
burns patient who are often in severe pain when dressings are being changed. It
also has linkages to theatres that have the same temperature control to cope
with surgery. Patients with severe burns are particularly prone to losing heat,
so it is very important to maintain heat in the theatres for those patients. It
has direct access to the emergency departments downstairs, direct access to the
theatres and direct access upstairs to the helicopter pad. It is all specifically
located to be able to get burns patients in as quickly as is absolutely
possible.
I am very proud of what Professor Fiona Wood has been able to
create. All services linked to the burns unit—not only programs such as
Hospital in the Home to manage burns patient when they go home, but also the
outpatient clinics—are on the same ward, on level 4 of the hospital. On
that level are a gym and rehabilitation area; functional training areas; dining
rooms; two kitchen facilities; interview, treatment, consultation, procedure
and garment-fitting rooms; and health therapy. It is a fantastic new facility,
and I have confidence that with a doctor who I regard as being the best burns
specialist in the world in Professor Fiona Wood we will have one of the best
burns units in the world.
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