❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding hospital funding, resources, staffing levels, patient waiting times, and patient safety in both metropolitan and regional hospitals.
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(1) Will the Minister provide details of all applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by the Minister or the Government last month?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(3) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following regional hospitals as at the end of last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(4) How many doctors resigned from each of the following hospitals last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(5) How many doctors resigned from each of the following regional hospitals last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(6) How many doctors had their employment terminated from a Hospital in Western Australia in the last month?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month and what was the recommended number for each Hospital -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(8) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following regional hospitals, as at the end of last month and what was the recommended number for each Hospital -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(9) How many nurses resigned at each of the following hospitals last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(10) How many nurses resigned at each of the following regional hospitals last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian Hospital last month?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals last month?
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(13) What is the number of administration staff that resigned at each regional hospital in Western Australia last month;
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(14) What is the number of administration staff who had employment terminated from a Hospital in Western Australia last month?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in Hospitals within a designated emergency department last month and what is the recommended target?
(16) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in the metro area as at the end of last month?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas as at the end of last month?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in the metro area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian Hospital last month (please provide details of each death and relevant Hospital)?
(21) How many wards were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian Hospitals at any one time last month (please provide details of wards and Hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian Hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers and Hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed as at the end of last month in Western Australian Hospitals (please provide details of numbers at each Hospital)?
(24) How many people were turned away or subjected to an ambulance bypass at Western Australian Hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers at each Hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian Hospital last month?
(26) Can the Minister provide details of each request made to his office for additional Health funding by Health Department officials, that were rejected by the Minister last month, and please give the reason for each rejection?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department last month (please provide breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system as at the end of last month -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses last month -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital as at the end of last month (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities as at the end of last month?
(32) What number of mental health patients who are not regarded as criminally insane, were housed in the same room as a criminally insane patient in Grayland Hospital last month?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(3) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following regional hospitals as at the end of last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(4) How many doctors resigned from each of the following hospitals last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(5) How many doctors resigned from each of the following regional hospitals last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(6) How many doctors had their employment terminated from a Hospital in Western Australia in the last month?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month and what was the recommended number for each Hospital -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(8) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following regional hospitals, as at the end of last month and what was the recommended number for each Hospital -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(9) How many nurses resigned at each of the following hospitals last month -
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(10) How many nurses resigned at each of the following regional hospitals last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian Hospital last month?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals last month?
(a) Sir Charles Gardiner;
(b) Royal Perth Hospital;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(13) What is the number of administration staff that resigned at each regional hospital in Western Australia last month;
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(14) What is the number of administration staff who had employment terminated from a Hospital in Western Australia last month?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in Hospitals within a designated emergency department last month and what is the recommended target?
(16) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in the metro area as at the end of last month?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas as at the end of last month?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in the metro area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian Hospital last month (please provide details of each death and relevant Hospital)?
(21) How many wards were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian Hospitals at any one time last month (please provide details of wards and Hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian Hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers and Hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed as at the end of last month in Western Australian Hospitals (please provide details of numbers at each Hospital)?
(24) How many people were turned away or subjected to an ambulance bypass at Western Australian Hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers at each Hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian Hospital last month?
(26) Can the Minister provide details of each request made to his office for additional Health funding by Health Department officials, that were rejected by the Minister last month, and please give the reason for each rejection?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department last month (please provide breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system as at the end of last month -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses last month -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital as at the end of last month (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities as at the end of last month?
(32) What number of mental health patients who are not regarded as criminally insane, were housed in the same room as a criminally insane patient in Grayland Hospital last month?
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8 May 2007
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Minister for Health
Response time
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(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) in regional areas?
(b) from regional areas?
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 31 (g) 31 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(32) Nil.
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(g) Joondalup? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(e) Narrogin? (i) How many beds were closed due to staff and resource shortages in each case?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) Royal Perth Hospital; (c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(c) Fremantle; (d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(d) Rockingham-Kwinana; (e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(e) Swan District; (f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(f) Armadale-Kelmscott; and (g) Joondalup?
(g) Joondalup?
(b) Bunbury; (c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(c) Geraldton; (d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(d) Kalgoorlie; and (e) Narrogin?
(e) Narrogin?
(b) in regional areas?
(b) from regional areas?
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 31 (g) 31 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(3) (a) 30 (b) 8 (c) 28 (d) 19 (e) 10 (i) Nil. Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. 4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
4) (a) 5 (b) Nil (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 5 (includes Kaleeya) (d) Nil (e) Nil (f) 1 (g) Nil (5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(5) (a) Nil (b) 1 (c) Nil (d) Nil (e) Nil (6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(6) Nil. (7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(7) (a) 1312 (b) 1643 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 1164 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 199 (e) 372 (f) 367 (g) 518 Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent nursing FTE. This number is not comparable with the public hospital data, extracted from the WA Health Human Resource Information System, which includes all employees and excludes agency nurses. Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(8) (a) 174 (b) 181 (c) 126 (d) 152 (e) 52 Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Hospitals do not operate on fixed recommended clinical staffing levels. Nursing staff requirements are actively determined and adjusted to maintain appropriate staffing levels for the prevailing activity level and activity profile based on nursing hours per patient day targets. (9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(9) (a) 6 (b) 24 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 12 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 7 (f) 2 (g) 15 (10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(10) (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) Nil. (d) 3 (e) 2 (11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(11)Nil (12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(12) (a) 7 (b) 5 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 9 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 2 (e) 2 (f) 1 (g) 1 (13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(13) (a) Nil. (b) Nil. (c) 3 (d) Nil. (e) Nil. (14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(14) Nil. (15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(15) The average and target waiting times in designated Emergency Departments at Western Australian public hospitals (listed below) and Peel and Joondalup Health Campuses by triage category during February 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 11.4 minutes 10 minutes 3 39.5 minutes 30 minutes 4 70.0 minutes 60 minutes 5 72.4 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.5 minutes. Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Notes: 1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
1. Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan Districts, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(16) 15,383 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 23 February 2007 (closest available date to 28 February 2007). (17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(17) In many centres in the country, the resident or visiting specialists receive direct referrals from the GPs for review of their patients. The patients are not seen at a hospital outpatient clinic and the information regarding waiting times for appointments with specialists is not available to the WACHS. Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Where there is a salaried specialist or visiting service that utilises the hospital or local health service for outpatient appointments the hospital will keep records but not in the form of a 'waiting list'. No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(18) There were 15,181 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 28 February 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 1,872 from the 17,053 people on the list at the end of February 2006. (19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(19) There were 2,714 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait lists as at 28 February 2007. (20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(20) "Accidental death" is not an agreed term for data collection in healthcare. Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: It is now mandatory for all deaths which occur in WA public hospitals to be reviewed. Deaths reportable to the Coroner are notified in accordance with the Coroner's Act 1996; maternal, perinatal and anaesthetic deaths are referred to the relevant statutory committee; deaths which occur under the care of a surgeon are audited by the WA Audit of Surgical Mortality and deaths meeting the Australian definition of a sentinel event (as agreed by all health ministers) are reported to the chief medical officer. Although death review processes are protected by legal or qualified privilege under the relevant legislation which limits identified disclosure to the public, annual reports at a state level, or inquest findings are available to the public. (21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(21) One ward - Short Stay Emergency Ward with 6 bays at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital were closed for 11 hours. (22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(22) 6 bays in Emergency Short Stay Ward were closed for 11 hours at Rockingham-Kwinana; 4 beds at Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service were closed all of February; and 8 surgical beds at Swan District Hospital were closed all of February. (23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(23) For all of February: 34 beds at Fremantle; 29 beds at Osborne Park;12 maternity beds at Swan District; and 24 beds at Kalamunda. (24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(24) Nil. (The data is for public hospitals with designated emergency departments and Joondalup and Peel Health Campuses). (25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(25) Hospital Occupancy ,8 South Metropolitan Area Health Service Armadale/Kelmscott 76% Bentley 68% Fremantle 96% Kaleeya 97% Mental Health Services (SMAHS) 96% Royal Perth Hospital (including Shenton Park Campus) 94% Peel Health Campus 86% for public patients Rockingham/Kwinana 58% Murray District 64% North Metropolitan Area Health Service Graylands Hospital 97% Osborne Park 87% Osborne Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 95% SCGH 103% SCGH Ward D20 (psychiatric ward) 92% Selby Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Valley Mental Health Centre 100% Swan Older Adult Mental Health Service Inpatient Unit 94% Swan Districts Hospital 70% Kalamunda Hospital 88% Joondalup Health Campus 92% for public patients King Edward Memorial Hospital 89% Princess Margaret Hospital 88% WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
WA Country Health Service7: Region Hospital Occupancy Goldfields Esperance 78% Kalgoorlie 52% Laverton 25% Leonora 53% Norseman 7% Ravensthorpe 51% Total 53% Great Southern Albany86% Denmark 52% Gnowangerup 9% Katanning 25% Kojonup 9% Plantagenet 39% Total 59% Kimberley Broome 68% Derby 51% Fitzroy Crossing 84% Halls Creek 52% Kununurra 61% Wyndham 34% Total 67% Midwest Carnarvon 42% Dongara 27% Exmouth 19% Geraldton 65% Kalbarri 8% Meekatharra 20% Morawa 6% Mullewa 26% North Midlands 5% Northampton 12% Total 44% Pilbara Newman 29% Nickol Bay 76% Onslow 11% Port Hedland 67% Roebourne 17% Tom Price 21% Total 50% South West Augusta 21% Boyup Brook 44% Bridgetown 48% Bunbury 77% Busselton 39% Collie 67% Donnybrook 16% Harvey 70% Margaret River 46% Nannup 5% Pemberton 13% Warren District- Manjimup 43% Total 55% Wheatbelt Beverley 3% Boddington 7% Bruce Rock 16% Corrigin 10% Cunderdin 48% Dalwallinu 12% Goomalling 36% Kellerberrin 20% Kondinin 21% Kununoppin 15% Lake Grace 35% Merredin 25% Moora 18% Narembeen 20% Narrogin 39% Northam 48% Pingelly 2% Quairading 4% Southern Cross 3% Wagin 8% Wongan Hills 27% Wyalkatchem 8% York 56% Total 24% February Total 47% 7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
7 Exclusions: aged care, flexible care, maintenance care, boarders and unqualified newborns. Data source: HCARe and TOPAS via WACHS Data Warehouse. Note: Beddays are calculated upon separation. 8 Occupancy rates originally supplied to one or two decimal places have been rounded either to the nearest whole number or, for numbers with a decimal place of 0.5, to the nearest even number. (26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(26) N/A (see response to q.1). (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of February 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Entity $ Department of Health 27,101 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 168,999 WA Country Health Service 43,336 Drug and Alcohol Office 3,664 TOTAL WA HEALTH 243,099 (1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(1) The Metropolitan Health Service comprises of the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services, Child and Adolescent Health Service, PathWest, Dental Health Service, Health Corporate Network and the Peel Health Service. Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
Seventy eight percent of the total expenditure of $243,099 (i.e. $190,406) was spent on staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(28) As at midnight, 28 February 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 26 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which three were not occupied. (29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(29) 112: (a) 80 from the metropolitan region. (b) 30 from regional areas. An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
An additional two were from interstate. (30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(30) There were 188 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 28 February 2007 with the maximum capacity being 196 beds. (31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(31) There were 21 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 28 February 2007. (32) Nil.
(32) Nil.
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