❓ The parliamentary question seeks clarification on the arrangements for private doctors, both Perth and South West based, to perform day surgery at Busselton District Hospital, and whether any specialists are being denied access, forcing patients to travel to Perth.
AnsweredQoN 3209Legislative Assembly
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(1) What are the existing arrangements by which private doctors can undertake day surgery procedures on their private patients at the Busselton District Hospital?
(2) Are doctors who are resident in the South West (including those living outside of the Busselton Shire) able to undertake day surgery procedures at the Busselton Hospital similar to Perth-based doctors who are currently using the hospital?
(3) How many visiting specialists from Perth currently have permission to use the Busselton Hospital for day surgery and in what specialist areas of medicine do they operate?
(4) Is the Minister aware that some of these specialists visiting from Perth and the South West are not able to use the facilities of the Busselton Hospital for day surgery, causing their patients to travel to Perth for surgery at additional time and financial costs to the patients and additional cost to the Health Department via PATS funding?
(2) Are doctors who are resident in the South West (including those living outside of the Busselton Shire) able to undertake day surgery procedures at the Busselton Hospital similar to Perth-based doctors who are currently using the hospital?
(3) How many visiting specialists from Perth currently have permission to use the Busselton Hospital for day surgery and in what specialist areas of medicine do they operate?
(4) Is the Minister aware that some of these specialists visiting from Perth and the South West are not able to use the facilities of the Busselton Hospital for day surgery, causing their patients to travel to Perth for surgery at additional time and financial costs to the patients and additional cost to the Health Department via PATS funding?
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Answered
9 November 2004
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
56 days
(2) Visiting Medical Practitioners (VMPs) (both Perth based and South West based) may undertake day surgery procedures at Busselton District Hospital provided they hold an appropriate Medical Services Agreement with South West Area Health Service. (3) Six. Urology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and ENT. (4) The South West Area Health Service is unaware of any Specialist that has been precluded from the use of day surgery facilities at Busselton District Hospital
(3) Six. Urology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and ENT. (4) The South West Area Health Service is unaware of any Specialist that has been precluded from the use of day surgery facilities at Busselton District Hospital
(4) The South West Area Health Service is unaware of any Specialist that has been precluded from the use of day surgery facilities at Busselton District Hospital
(3) Six. Urology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and ENT. (4) The South West Area Health Service is unaware of any Specialist that has been precluded from the use of day surgery facilities at Busselton District Hospital
(4) The South West Area Health Service is unaware of any Specialist that has been precluded from the use of day surgery facilities at Busselton District Hospital
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