❓ Hon Helen Morton's parliamentary questions seek data on sentinel events involving individuals with mental illness in WA's health system during 2006-2007. The Minister's response indicates this data isn't systematically collected due to de-identification policies.
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(1) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involve a person with a mental illness?
(2) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involving a person with a mental illness involve the death of the mentally ill person?
(3) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients in an authorised mental health bed?
(4) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients presenting with a mental health complaint placed in a general hospital bed?
(5) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients with a mental illness in the community?
(6) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involving a person with a mental illness fell into the event category of ‘other’?
(7) Of these, how many of those sentinel events were further broken down as a hospital process issue, such as failure to access timely and appropriate care, poor planning of discharge, or failure to follow up?
(8) Contributing factors, as outlined in the Health Department’s WA Sentinel Event Report 2005-2006, have been categorised by a system developed by the Department of Human Services, Victoria. Of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007, involving a person with a mental illness, how many of those involved contributing factors of communication, health information, human resources, inter-hospital issues, physical environment, policy, procedures and guidelines?
(9) Is the Minister willing to table the Health Department’s WA Sentinel Event Report 2006-2007?
(2) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involving a person with a mental illness involve the death of the mentally ill person?
(3) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients in an authorised mental health bed?
(4) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients presenting with a mental health complaint placed in a general hospital bed?
(5) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involved patients with a mental illness in the community?
(6) How many of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007 involving a person with a mental illness fell into the event category of ‘other’?
(7) Of these, how many of those sentinel events were further broken down as a hospital process issue, such as failure to access timely and appropriate care, poor planning of discharge, or failure to follow up?
(8) Contributing factors, as outlined in the Health Department’s WA Sentinel Event Report 2005-2006, have been categorised by a system developed by the Department of Human Services, Victoria. Of the sentinel events reported in 2006-2007, involving a person with a mental illness, how many of those involved contributing factors of communication, health information, human resources, inter-hospital issues, physical environment, policy, procedures and guidelines?
(9) Is the Minister willing to table the Health Department’s WA Sentinel Event Report 2006-2007?
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Answered
13 November 2007
Responded by
Minister for Child Protection representing the Minister for Health
Response time
26 days
(1) - (8) Reported Sentinel events are de-identified. The Sentinel Event Policy does not require reporters to identify whether the patient has a mental illness hence the answers to the questions are unknown.
(9) The Department of Health's WA Sentinel Event Report 2006-2007 was released on 8 October 2007.This is a public document and is available at:
http://www.safetyandquality.health.wa.gov.au/policies/index.cfm
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(9) The Department of Health's WA Sentinel Event Report 2006-2007 was released on 8 October 2007.This is a public document and is available at:
http://www.safetyandquality.health.wa.gov.au/policies/index.cfm
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