❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding hospital funding, resources, staffing levels, waiting times, patient deaths, and ward closures in both metropolitan and regional hospitals.
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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 last month?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month -
(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 as at the end of last month -
(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 last month -
(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 last month -
(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 the last month?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month, 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 as at the end of last month 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 last month -
(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 last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian hospital last month?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals last month -
(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 last month -
(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 last month?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in hospitals within a designated emergency department last month, 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 as at the end of last month?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas as at the end of last month?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in the metropolitian area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian hospital last month (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 last month (please provide details of wards and hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers and hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed as at the end of last month 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 last month (please provide details of numbers at each hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian hospital last month?
(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 last month (please give the reason for each rejection)?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department last month (please provide a breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system as at the end of last month -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses last month -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital as at the end of last month (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities as at the end of last month?
(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 last month ?
(2) How many day beds were available to patients at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month -
(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 as at the end of last month -
(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 last month -
(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 last month -
(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 the last month?
(7) How many nurses (FTE) were employed at each of the following hospitals as at the end of last month, 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 as at the end of last month 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 last month -
(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 last month -
(a) Albany;
(b) Bunbury;
(c) Geraldton;
(d) Kalgoorlie; and
(e) Narrogin?
(11) How many nurses had their employment terminated from a Western Australian hospital last month?
(12) How many administration staff resigned at each of the following hospitals last month -
(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 last month -
(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 last month?
(15) What was the average waiting time before being treated by a doctor in hospitals within a designated emergency department last month, 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 as at the end of last month?
(17) What was the number of patients on a waiting list to see a specialist in regional areas as at the end of last month?
(18) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in the metropolitian area?
(19) What was the number of patients on a waiting list for elective surgery as at the end of last month in regional areas?
(20) How many patients accidentally died whilst in the care of a Western Australian hospital last month (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 last month (please provide details of wards and hospitals)?
(22) How many beds were closed because of a lack of resources in Western Australian hospitals last month (please provide details of numbers and hospitals)?
(23) How many beds were unstaffed as at the end of last month 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 last month (please provide details of numbers at each hospital)?
(25) What was the average occupancy rate at each Western Australian hospital last month?
(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 last month (please give the reason for each rejection)?
(27) What was the total amount of money expended on advertising by the Health Department last month (please provide a breakdown)?
(28) How many dedicated mental health beds were available in the public health system as at the end of last month -
(a) in the metropolitan region; and
(b) in regional areas?
(29) What was the number of admissions to Graylands Hospital for mental health illnesses last month -
(a) from the metropolitan region; and
(b) from regional areas?
(30) How many patients were residing in Graylands Hospital as at the end of last month (please also advise the recommended maximum capacity)?
(31) What was the number of people in community residential mental health facilities as at the end of last month?
(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 last month ?
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Answered
12 June 2007
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
35 days
(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?
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 32 (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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (4) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(4) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) 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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(9) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(13) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) 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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(21) One ward - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(25) See attached table [tabled paper ________]. (26) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(26) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(32) Nil.
(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?
(2) (a) 105 (b) 122 (includes Shenton Park Campus) (c) 73 (includes Kaleeya) (d) 10 (e) 20 (f) 32 (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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Note: Figures include day beds and chairs such as dialysis chairs used for treatment of admitted patients. (4) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(4) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2 (b) Royal Perth Hospital Nil (c) Fremantle Hospital 6 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital Nil (e) Swan District Hospital Nil (f) Armadale Hospital 4 (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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) 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 last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(5) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital Nil (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital Nil (e) Narrogin Hospital Nil Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Note:(a) Excludes dentists and medical agency staff. (b) Over the last month 64 doctors (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(6) One. (7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(7) FTE (April 07) (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1328 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 1424 (c) Fremantle Hospital 1081 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 197 (e) Swan District Hospital 337 (f) Armadale Hospital 327 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 518 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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 (April 07) (a) Albany Hospital 185 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 177 (c) Geraldton Hospital 125 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 146 (e) Narrogin Hospital 46 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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(9) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 17 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 22 (c) Fremantle Hospital 12 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 3 (f) Armadale Hospital 2 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 15 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 last month 246 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(10) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital 3 (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital 1 (c) Geraldton Hospital 2 (d) Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital 4 (e) Narrogin Hospital 1 Note: (a) Excludes registered dental nurses, dental clinic assistants and nursing agency staff. (b) Over the last month 264 nurses (headcount) were recruited/commenced in the public health system (excludes Joondalup Health Campus). (11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(11) Nil. (12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(12) April 2007 (a) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 5 (b) Royal Perth Hospital 14 (c) Fremantle Hospital 14 (d) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital 1 (e) Swan District Hospital 1 (f) Armadale Hospital 1 (g) Joondalup Health Campus 1 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) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(13) April 2007 (a) Albany Hospital Nil (b) Bunbury Regional Hospital Nil (c) Geraldton Hospital 1 (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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) 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 April 2007 are as follows. TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
TriageCategory AverageWaiting Time TargetWaiting Time 1 0.1 minutes Immediately 2 12.1 minutes 10 minutes 3 45.8 minutes 30 minutes 4 71 minutes 60 minutes 5 70.5 minutes 120 minutes The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
The average waiting time independent of triage is 55.8 minutes. Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Notes: 1. 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. 2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
2. Targets are based on the National Triage Scale, which incorporates the time by which the patient should receive care. (16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(16) 15,513 patients were on a wait list to see a surgical specialist as at 30 April 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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
No centralised data is kept at WA Country Health Service (WACHS) as it is kept at the private surgeon's rooms or on disparate systems (some manual) at local sites. (18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(18) There were 13,936 cases on the metropolitan public hospital, Peel and Joondalup wait list as at 30 April 2007. This figure is continuing to fall. It represents a reduction of 3,069 from the 17,005 cases on the list at the end of April 2006. (19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(19) There were 2,814 cases on the WA Country Health Service public hospital wait list as at 30 April 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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
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 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(21) One ward - Paediatrics Ward with 8 beds at Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital was closed for 17 days. (22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(22) Rockingham-Kwinana Hospital had 8 paediatric beds inactive for 17 days in April (see Q21 above). (23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(23) 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. Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Available inactive beds during April 2007 were: Osborne Park Hospital - 29 beds Swan District Hospital - 27 beds Kalamunda Hospital - 24 beds Fremantle Hospital - 70 beds Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - two beds (13 days) Selby Lodge - 4 beds (24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(24) Hours of ambulance diversion during April 2007: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 1.2 Swan District Hospital 21.5 Joondalup Health Campus 143.7 Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 3.8 Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital 7.1 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) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(25) See attached table [tabled paper ________]. (26) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(26) Please refer to the answer to question 1. (27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(27) The following table identifies expenditure on advertising by WA Health entities in the month of April 2007: Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
Entity $ Department of Health 95,066 Metropolitan Health Service (1) 135,508 WA Country Health Service 19,833 Drug and Alcohol Office 1,897 TOTAL WA HEALTH 252,304 (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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(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. The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
The table includes staff recruitment advertising. (28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(28) As at midnight, 1 April 2007 there were: (a) 535 mental health beds available in the metropolitan area of which 21 were not occupied. (b) 27 mental health beds available in regional areas of which two were not occupied. (29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(29) 113: (a) 76 from the metropolitan region. (b) 34 from regional areas. An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
An additional three were from interstate. (30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(30) There were 203 patients residing in Graylands Hospital as at midnight 30 April 2007 with the maximum capacity being 209 beds. (31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(31) There were 19 people in public community residential mental health facilities as at midnight 30 April 2007. (32) Nil.
(32) Nil.
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