❓ Hon Stephen Dawson asks the Minister for Mental Health for updated data on mental health patients held in emergency departments and details of administrative changes affecting admittance recording. The Minister provides the requested data and clarifies IT system changes.
AnsweredQoN 3363Legislative Council
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I refer to Supplementary Information C10 provided to the Estimates and Financial Operations Committee on 10 June 2011 found at http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/commit.nsf/(Evidence+Lookup+by+Com+ID)/CF30D98E4E1061CC482578B1001BE1FC/$file/ef.ehw12.110615.003.aqton.MHC.pdf , which shows information on mental health patients held in emergency departments for more than 24 hours from 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011, and ask: (a) can the Minister please provide the same data for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015; (b) can the Minister please detail all administrative changes, including the date of any changes, that affect directly or indirectly how admittance to emergency is recorded during the above periods; (c) are patients ever admitted to a hospital facility and held in emergency while waiting for a mental health bed; and (d) if yes to (c), in how many instances for the following periods were patients admitted to a hospital emergency while waiting on a mental health bed for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015?
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Answered
13 October 2015
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health
Response time
35 days
(a) Data is provided for each Health Service in Attachment 1. [Please see tabled papers...]
(b) No such administrative changes have been made. The WA Country Health Service implemented webPAS ED across the South West, Great Southern and HCARe ED tracker at Broome, Port Hedland, Karratha, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie during the specified period. Whilst new Information Technology systems have been introduced, these would not have changed the underlying business rules in relation to how the data is recorded in line with policy and standards.
(c) Yes.
(d) Data is provided for each Health Service in Attachment 2. [Please see tabled papers...]
(b) No such administrative changes have been made. The WA Country Health Service implemented webPAS ED across the South West, Great Southern and HCARe ED tracker at Broome, Port Hedland, Karratha, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie during the specified period. Whilst new Information Technology systems have been introduced, these would not have changed the underlying business rules in relation to how the data is recorded in line with policy and standards.
(c) Yes.
(d) Data is provided for each Health Service in Attachment 2. [Please see tabled papers...]
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