❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses health services in Tom Price and Paraburdoo, covering mental health, maternity services, emergency response, and facility upgrades. The response details current services, planned improvements, and data on births.
AnsweredQoN 8737Legislative Assembly
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(h) No. (i) Regional emergency response procedures have been modified to include a pre-emptive 'code yellow' response to inland Pilbara emergencies and are coordinated by the Regional Health Disaster Coordinator. This form of alert has reduced wait times for Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) retrievals and enabled more efficient use of emergency resources. This modified alert has been activated on five occasions to date across the inland Pilbara including twice at Tom Price, and one of these being in response to a mine site emergency. An Industry Health Alliance Committee meets quarterly in both the East and West Pilbara to review health needs and develop collaborative responses. Tom Price and Paraburdoo have benefited from extensive investment in emergency management and preparedness training. For example, programs run have been Advanced Life Support, Western Trauma, participation in simulation exercises (bus crash on way to mine site and hospital response), Trauma Nursing Core Course, emergency airways management, burns training, Council Remote Area Nurses Australia - Remote Emergency Course. WACHS Pilbara staff are scheduled to attend a MIMMS (Major incident medical management and support) program to be held in Tom Price in October. The mining company, Rio Tinto staff will also participate in this course. Tom Price and Paraburdoo emergency departments have also benefited from investment in emergency life support and pathology testing equipment. Additional minor works have recently been approved for Paraburdoo emergency department to improve access/security at an estimated cost of $50,000 and in Tom Price, a further estimated $150,000 will be spent to improve patient flows for public waiting and emergency triage and associated security. Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on http://www.rtlib.com
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Answered
6 November 2012
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
41 days
(a) The September 2011 Tom Price Paraburdoo Health Service Plan recommends that the region provide an appropriate resident mental health service and explore how best to create a mental health position within the Tom Price and Paraburdoo area that would work with existing community services with a focus on illness prevention, health promotion and counselling. Currently, Newman Mental Health team provide a visiting service for 2 days on a fortnightly basis. This team includes a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Mental Health, a Child and Adolescent Clinician and two Aboriginal Mental Health Workers. A Consultant Psychiatrist visits every 4-6 weeks and provides mental health reviews, assessments, and undertakes clinical supervision with senior clinicians and liaison with local General Practitioners. All referrals from Tom Price and Paraburdoo are triaged (prioritised) by the Hedland Health Campus' Community Mental Health Clinic and discussed at the daily intake meetings, which includes the attendance of the Newman Mental Health team via video conference. People assessed as at risk are actioned immediately and referrals assessed as non-urgent are followed up within 7 days. In addition, the Pilbara Mental Health and Drug Service management team continually review models of care provision and are exploring the potential for a visiting service to commence from the Karratha Clinic.
(b) There are no secure mental health inpatient beds in the Pilbara. The Tom Price Paraburdoo Health Service Plan does not identify a need nor recommend the establishment of new or additional mental health beds at Tom Price or Paraburdoo. Therefore, no costings have been undertaken.
(c) The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) received a Condition Assessments Report for Tom Price and Paraburdoo in early 2011 from the Department of Finance's Building Management and Works. This was a routine assessment to inform the planning when determining future facility requirements.
(d) I am advised that the 2011 Condition Assessment Reports identify some minor internal and external works to walls and finishes with indicative cost estimates for Tom Price ($1,400) and Paraburdoo ($3,000) emergency departments.
(e) There are no maternity delivery services at Tom Price or Paraburdoo. Within the Pilbara region, expectant mothers from Tom Price or Paraburdoo can birth at the Hedland Health Campus or the Nickol Bay Hospital at Karratha. Tom Price and Paraburdoo expectant mothers can also access public and private metropolitan maternity services or other regional maternity services throughout the State.
(f) Tom Price ceased providing the service in 2007 and Paraburdoo in 2001.
(g) Babies born to Tom Price/Paraburdoo mothers by place of birth 2008?2011:
Private Metro
Public Metro
Public Rural
Tertiary-Teaching
Total
Year
N
N
N
N
N
2008
17
9
29
17
72
2009
27
5
13
11
56
2010
25
6
11
17
59
2011
30
8
17
9
64
Total
99
28
70
54
251
Source: Midwives Notification System (Ref: MCH12124). Caution 2011 dataset approx 99.5% complete as at 28 September 2012
(h) No.
(i) Regional emergency response procedures have been modified to include a pre-emptive 'code yellow' response to inland Pilbara emergencies and are coordinated by the Regional Health Disaster Coordinator. This form of alert has reduced wait times for Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) retrievals and enabled more efficient use of emergency resources. This modified alert has been activated on five occasions to date across the inland Pilbara including twice at Tom Price, and one of these being in response to a mine site emergency.
An Industry Health Alliance Committee meets quarterly in both the East and West Pilbara to review health needs and develop collaborative responses.
Tom Price and Paraburdoo have benefited from extensive investment in emergency management and preparedness training. For example, programs run have been Advanced Life Support, Western Trauma, participation in simulation exercises (bus crash on way to mine site and hospital response), Trauma Nursing Core Course, emergency airways management, burns training, Council Remote Area Nurses Australia - Remote Emergency Course.
WACHS Pilbara staff are scheduled to attend a MIMMS (Major incident medical management and support) program to be held in Tom Price in October. The mining company, Rio Tinto staff will also participate in this course. Tom Price and Paraburdoo emergency departments have also benefited from investment in emergency life support and pathology testing equipment.
Additional minor works have recently been approved for Paraburdoo emergency department to improve access/security at an estimated cost of $50,000 and in Tom Price, a further estimated $150,000 will be spent to improve patient flows for public waiting and emergency triage and associated security.
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(b) There are no secure mental health inpatient beds in the Pilbara. The Tom Price Paraburdoo Health Service Plan does not identify a need nor recommend the establishment of new or additional mental health beds at Tom Price or Paraburdoo. Therefore, no costings have been undertaken.
(c) The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) received a Condition Assessments Report for Tom Price and Paraburdoo in early 2011 from the Department of Finance's Building Management and Works. This was a routine assessment to inform the planning when determining future facility requirements.
(d) I am advised that the 2011 Condition Assessment Reports identify some minor internal and external works to walls and finishes with indicative cost estimates for Tom Price ($1,400) and Paraburdoo ($3,000) emergency departments.
(e) There are no maternity delivery services at Tom Price or Paraburdoo. Within the Pilbara region, expectant mothers from Tom Price or Paraburdoo can birth at the Hedland Health Campus or the Nickol Bay Hospital at Karratha. Tom Price and Paraburdoo expectant mothers can also access public and private metropolitan maternity services or other regional maternity services throughout the State.
(f) Tom Price ceased providing the service in 2007 and Paraburdoo in 2001.
(g) Babies born to Tom Price/Paraburdoo mothers by place of birth 2008?2011:
Private Metro
Public Metro
Public Rural
Tertiary-Teaching
Total
Year
N
N
N
N
N
2008
17
9
29
17
72
2009
27
5
13
11
56
2010
25
6
11
17
59
2011
30
8
17
9
64
Total
99
28
70
54
251
Source: Midwives Notification System (Ref: MCH12124). Caution 2011 dataset approx 99.5% complete as at 28 September 2012
(h) No.
(i) Regional emergency response procedures have been modified to include a pre-emptive 'code yellow' response to inland Pilbara emergencies and are coordinated by the Regional Health Disaster Coordinator. This form of alert has reduced wait times for Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) retrievals and enabled more efficient use of emergency resources. This modified alert has been activated on five occasions to date across the inland Pilbara including twice at Tom Price, and one of these being in response to a mine site emergency.
An Industry Health Alliance Committee meets quarterly in both the East and West Pilbara to review health needs and develop collaborative responses.
Tom Price and Paraburdoo have benefited from extensive investment in emergency management and preparedness training. For example, programs run have been Advanced Life Support, Western Trauma, participation in simulation exercises (bus crash on way to mine site and hospital response), Trauma Nursing Core Course, emergency airways management, burns training, Council Remote Area Nurses Australia - Remote Emergency Course.
WACHS Pilbara staff are scheduled to attend a MIMMS (Major incident medical management and support) program to be held in Tom Price in October. The mining company, Rio Tinto staff will also participate in this course. Tom Price and Paraburdoo emergency departments have also benefited from investment in emergency life support and pathology testing equipment.
Additional minor works have recently been approved for Paraburdoo emergency department to improve access/security at an estimated cost of $50,000 and in Tom Price, a further estimated $150,000 will be spent to improve patient flows for public waiting and emergency triage and associated security.
Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on
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