Hon Donna Faragher asks about the filling of 100 extra staffing positions for child specialists, following a West Australian article. The Minister for Health provides a breakdown of filled positions by FTE and category.

AnsweredQoN 126Legislative Assembly
Asked
1 May 2025
Portfolio
Health

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Health—Child specialists—Recruitment
126. Hon Donna Faragher to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to the
article in The West Australian titled "Amber
Jade Sanderson says paediatrics is 'emotionally draining', as WA tries to
recruit more child specialists", which states:
… the Government had put in a
range of measures to meet increased child development demand, including funding
almost 100 extra staffing positions in the last budget. Of those, 48 have been
filled.
(1) Have all staffing positions now been filled
and, if not, how many have been filled to date?
(2) Can the minister provide a breakdown, by
position and FTE, of all staffing positions that have been filled?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the
honourable member for some notice of the question. The following has been
provided by the Minister for Health.
(1) There have been 91.5 FTEs.
(2) As of 31 March 2025, there have been 65.9 clinical
administration FTEs, 17.7 clinical administration FTEs and 7.9 non-clinical
support FTEs.

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