❓ A member of parliament questions the Health Minister regarding bed capacity at Busselton District Hospital, potential bed cuts, and the transfer of an elderly patient. The Minister acknowledges the question but does not provide an immediate answer, promising to investigate.
AnsweredQoN 1125Legislative Council
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I fear that an answer may not be available but this is the last opportunity I might have to put this question on the record. If the answer is not available, perhaps the parliamentary secretary will undertake to reply in writing. (1) What is the total bed capacity of the Busselton District Hospital? (2) Are current bed numbers at that hospital being cut from 35 to 20? (3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY
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I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(1) What is the total bed capacity of the Busselton District Hospital? (2) Are current bed numbers at that hospital being cut from 35 to 20? (3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(2) Are current bed numbers at that hospital being cut from 35 to 20? (3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(1) What is the total bed capacity of the Busselton District Hospital? (2) Are current bed numbers at that hospital being cut from 35 to 20? (3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(2) Are current bed numbers at that hospital being cut from 35 to 20? (3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(3) If yes, when and why, given that visitor numbers to the Busselton region increase enormously over the summer? (4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(4) If not, what bed numbers will be available at the hospital over the summer/holiday period? (5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
(5) How does the Government justify forcing an ill 82-year-old female patient with dementia out of the hospital, with the suggestion that she be transferred to a nursing home in the Bunbury area well away from her family? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
I do not have an answer to that question, but I will endeavour to get one.
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