❓ Hon Nick Goiran asks about the daily cost of palliative care beds in WA for the 2009/2010 financial year. The response provides an average cost of $716.70 per bed day, based on aggregated data from public and private hospitals.
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What is the total amount of money spent by the State Government for each individual palliative care bed per day (bed day rate)?
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Answered
14 February 2011
Responded by
Minister for Transport representing the Minister for Health
Response time
74 days
This response has been prepared using aggregated data from public and private hospitals in Western Australia. Costing information supplied by private health care providers, contracted by the State Government to provide palliative care to Western Australian patients is subject to commercial in confidence.
The latest period that the Department of Health is able to provide data for is financial year 2009/2010.
In 2009/2010, there was a total of 22,443 bed days for palliative care. The total cost of palliative care purchased by the State Government was $16,078,347. Theaverage cost of each palliative care bed day was $716.70.
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The latest period that the Department of Health is able to provide data for is financial year 2009/2010.
In 2009/2010, there was a total of 22,443 bed days for palliative care. The total cost of palliative care purchased by the State Government was $16,078,347. Theaverage cost of each palliative care bed day was $716.70.
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