❓ Hon Simon O'Brien questions the Health Minister about Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital's occupancy, capacity, and the fulfillment of an election promise regarding additional surgical operations. The Minister clarifies the scope of the promise and explains why the target was not met.
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(1) What was the average daily occupancy rate at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital in May 2005? (2) What was the total capacity - that is, the number of beds - of Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital in May 2005? (3) Will 1 660 additional surgical operations have been carried out at the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital between 31 January 2005 and Thursday, 30 June 2005, as promised during the recent election? (4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(2) What was the total capacity - that is, the number of beds - of Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital in May 2005? (3) Will 1 660 additional surgical operations have been carried out at the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital between 31 January 2005 and Thursday, 30 June 2005, as promised during the recent election? (4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(3) Will 1 660 additional surgical operations have been carried out at the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital between 31 January 2005 and Thursday, 30 June 2005, as promised during the recent election? (4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(2) What was the total capacity - that is, the number of beds - of Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital in May 2005? (3) Will 1 660 additional surgical operations have been carried out at the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital between 31 January 2005 and Thursday, 30 June 2005, as promised during the recent election? (4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(3) Will 1 660 additional surgical operations have been carried out at the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital between 31 January 2005 and Thursday, 30 June 2005, as promised during the recent election? (4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(4) If not, why not; and how many additional operations will be performed by 3 June? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(1) The average occupancy is 42.3 beds and the average occupancy rate is 44.6 per cent. (2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(2) Ninety-six beds. (3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
(3)-(4) The election commitment of 1 660 additional surgical operations referred to the Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital and Galliers Private Hospital and Specialist Centre at the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital. Between 31 January 2005 and 30 June 2005, 955 operations will have been carried out at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital. Galliers is now a wing of the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, and it is difficult to differentiate between the public patients at the Galliers wing and the public patients in the remaining areas of the hospital. The additional surgical operations have been carried out in circumstances in which private admissions for surgery were allowed at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital for three months after its purchase by the government. This gesture of goodwill was allowed to enable doctors to transfer their private business to other private hospitals. In the case of Galliers, the purchase was extended by one month at the request of the then owners, and that therefore denied access to public surgery operations. Both circumstances at Kaleeya Hospital and the purchase of Galliers have impacted on the ability to carry out additional surgical operations.
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