Mr Cook asks the Minister for Health about ambulance diversion/bypass occurrences at Perth hospitals during January 2010, including dates, average diversion times, and longest diversion periods. The Minister provides detailed data sourced from the Ambulance Diversion Reporting System.

AnsweredQoN 3031Legislative Assembly
Asked
20 May 2010
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Health

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(1) Will the Minister advise the date(s) during January 2010 that the following hospitals had active ambulance diversion/ bypass:
(a) Sir Charles Gairdner;
(b) Royal Perth;
(c) Fremantle;
(d) Rockingham–Kwinana;
(e) Swan District;
(f) Armadale–Kelmscott; and
(g) Joondalup?
(2) For each hospital with active ambulance diversion/bypass, what was the average time the Emergency Department was on diversion/by-pass?
(3) For each hospital Emergency Department, what was the longest period of time that the emergency was on diversion/bypass?

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Answered
16 June 2010
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
27 days
(1)(a) Nil.
(b) 28/01/10.
(c) 27/01/10.
(d) 20/01/10 to 21/01/10; 27/01/10 to 28/01/10.
(e) 02/01/10; 04/01/10; 07/01/10 to 08/01/10; 10/01/10; 22/01/10 to 25/01/10; 27/01/10 to 29/01/10.
(f) 04/01/10; 10/01/10; 29/01/10.
(g) 03/01/10; 08/01/10; 14/01/10 to 20/01/10; 23/01/10; 25/01/10 to 29/01/10; 31/01/10.
(2) Royal Perth: 5 minutes
Fremantle: 7 minutes
Rockingham-Kwinana: 15 minutes
Swan District: 90 minutes
Armadale-Kelmscott: 19 minutes
Joondalup: 120 minutes
Note: Average time is defined as the average daily time in minutes (rounded) for the 31 days of January 2010.
(3) Royal Perth: 158 minutes
Fremantle: 214 minutes
Rockingham-Kwinana: 273 minutes
Swan District: 448 minutes
Armadale-Kelmscott: 247 minutes
Joondalup: 401 minutes
Data Source for (1) to (3): Ambulance Diversion Reporting System (ADRS), St John Ambulance Australia.
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