❓ The WA parliamentary question seeks detailed information on funding rejections, hospital resources (beds, staffing), resignations/terminations, waiting times, patient deaths, and ward closures within WA's health system for March 2007. It aims to scrutinise resource allocation and performance.
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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 in March 2007?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 March 2007?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals in March 2007, 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 in March 2007 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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian hospital in March 2007?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals in March 2007 -
(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 of the following regional hospitals in Western Australia in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in hospitals within a designated emergency department in March 2007, and what is the recommended target?
(16) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in the metropolitan area in March 2007?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas in March 2007?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery in March 2007 in the metropolitian area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery in March 2007 in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian hospital in March 2007 (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 in March 2007 (please provide details of wards and hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian hospitals in March 2007 (please provide details of numbers and hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed in March 2007 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 in March 2007 (please provide details of numbers at each hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian hospital in March 2007?
(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 in March 2007 (please give the reason for each rejection)?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department in March 2007 (please provide a breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system in March 2007 -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses in March 2007 -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital in March 2007 (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities in March 2007?
(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 Graylands Hospital in March 2007 ?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(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 March 2007?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals in March 2007, 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 in March 2007 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 in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007 -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian hospital in March 2007?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals in March 2007 -
(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 of the following regional hospitals in Western Australia in March 2007 -
(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 in March 2007?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in hospitals within a designated emergency department in March 2007, and what is the recommended target?
(16) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in the metropolitan area in March 2007?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas in March 2007?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery in March 2007 in the metropolitian area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery in March 2007 in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian hospital in March 2007 (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 in March 2007 (please provide details of wards and hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian hospitals in March 2007 (please provide details of numbers and hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed in March 2007 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 in March 2007 (please provide details of numbers at each hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian hospital in March 2007?
(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 in March 2007 (please give the reason for each rejection)?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department in March 2007 (please provide a breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system in March 2007 -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses in March 2007 -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital in March 2007 (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities in March 2007?
(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 Graylands Hospital in March 2007 ?
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12 June 2007
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Minister for Health
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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?
Simply put, the Member has asked three questions seeking the same information for three different months - February, March and April 2007. Section 7 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994, which was introduced by the Court Government in 1994, sets out the general principles of public administration and management to be observed in relation to the Public Sector. At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Section 7 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994, which was introduced by the Court Government in 1994, sets out the general principles of public administration and management to be observed in relation to the Public Sector. At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(4) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(9) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
No centralised data is kept at WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(21) One ward - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
* Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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?
Simply put, the Member has asked three questions seeking the same information for three different months - February, March and April 2007. Section 7 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994, which was introduced by the Court Government in 1994, sets out the general principles of public administration and management to be observed in relation to the Public Sector. At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Section 7 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994, which was introduced by the Court Government in 1994, sets out the general principles of public administration and management to be observed in relation to the Public Sector. At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
At subsection 7(f) it states: "resources are to be deployed so as to ensure their most efficient and effective use". I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
I have no desire to see the right of the Member restricted in asking parliamentary questions, and I understand that the role of the Opposition, to hold the Government accountable; however, resources within my agencies have to be managed prudently. In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
In light of the requirement to effectively manage public sector resources, it concerns me that in my departments and agencies, disproportionate resources have to be applied to answering parliamentary question of a corporate, operational or "catch all" nature. Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Notwithstanding the resource intensity of these questions, I have provided the information required for the months of February, March and April 2007. To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
To address the concerns regarding imprudent use of resources described above, and the need for accountability to Parliament, in future, questions of this nature are to be presented in WA Health annual reports. (1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(1) During March there were no applications for Government funding or resources that were rejected by either the Minister or the Government. (2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 39 (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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(4) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 3 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus Nil Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) The answer for Joondalup (g) has been provided by the private sector operator and is the permanent medical 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(5) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 0 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 0 (e) Narrogin Hospital 0 Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: (a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(6) Nil. (7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(7) FTE (March 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1321 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1426 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1074 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 195 (e) Swan District Hospital 372 (f) Armadale Hospital 329 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 574 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(8) FTE (March 07) (a) Albany Hospital 179 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 179 (c) Geraldton Hospital 131 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 151 (e) Narrogin Hospital 50 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(9) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 19 (c) Fremantle Hospital 10 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 7 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (d) Over the month of March 65 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(10) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 3 (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 3 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the month of March 310 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(11) Nil. (12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(12) March 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 12 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 2 (c) Fremantle Hospital 8 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital 2 (f) Armadale Hospital Nil (g) Joondalup Health Campus 2 Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (b) 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. (c) Royal Perth Hospital excludes Shenton Park Campus, Fremantle Hospital excludes Kaleeya Hospital and Armadale Hospital excludes Galliers. (13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(13) March 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 1 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note: (a) Excludes administration & clerical agency staff. (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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 March 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.5 minutes Immediately 2 12.2 minutes 10 minutes 3 44.0 minutes 30 minutes 4 67.2 minutes 60 minutes 5 75.1 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 53.9 minutes. Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: (a) Public Hospital Emergency Departments represented are at Royal Perth, Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner, Princess Margaret, King Edward Memorial, Armadale-Kelmscott, Swan District, Rockingham Kwinana, Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Port Hedland Hospitals. (b) Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(16) 15,782 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist at 31 March 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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 WA Country Health Service (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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
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 WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
No centralised data is kept at WACHS as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(18) There were 14,375 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 31 March 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 2,457 from the 16,832 cases on the list at 31 March 2006. (19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(19) There were 2,756 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 31 March 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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
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 - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(21) One ward - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 11 days in March. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive in March and continued in April (see Q21 above). (23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(23) For all of March: 12 obstetric, 2 surgical and 13 adult mental health beds at Swan Districts Hospital, 11 beds at SCGH, 24 beds at Kalamunda, 29 beds at Osborne Park, 4 older adult mental health beds at Selby, 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana, 70 beds at Fremantle. Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: An available inactive bed/chair is a bed/chair in a ward area that cannot be used for an admitted patient (i.e. is closed for operational management reasons, such as infection control, staffing, clinical, demand management, ward maintenance etc.) 'Unstaffed' is a term no longer used to describe beds as it is misleading. A more accurate descriptor is available inactive beds. (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(24) Hours of ambulance diversion during March 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2.0 Swan District Hospital 9.5 Joondalup Health Campus 201.5 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 6.6 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 10.2 Royal Perth Hospital2.0 Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: The Department of Health does not hold data relating to individual ambulances or persons in relation to diversion episodes. (25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(25) See attached table [tabled paper ______]. (26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(26) During March there were no requests for additional funding rejected by the Minister. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of March 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 22,415 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 147,961 WA Country Health Service 86,853 Drug and Alcohol Office 4,709 TOTAL WA HEALTH 261,938 (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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(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. Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
Note: The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(28) As of midnight, 31 March 2007 there were: i) 537 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 28 were not occupied. * ii) 27 mental health beds were available in regional areas of which 8 were not occupied. * Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
* Please note, these figures exclude Child and Adolescent and Privately Operated Publicly Funded mental health beds. (29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(29) 129 (a) 82 from the metropolitan region (b) 44 from regional areas An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
An additional three were from outside WA. (30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(30) There were 201 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 March. Maximum capacity 209 beds. (31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(31) There were 20 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 31 March 2007. (32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
(32) There was one non forensic patient housed in the Frankland Centre in the month of March 2007. She was housed for two days only.
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