❓ Hon Adele Farina requests detailed data on emergency department attendances, admissions, ambulance activity, and triage wait times across South West hospitals from 2011-2014. The response acknowledges data inaccuracies affecting wait time reporting and anticipates improvements with the WebPAS rollout.
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I refer to emergency department attendances, and ask: (a) in each of 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 at each hospital in the South West, what was: (i) the total emergency department attendances by triage category; (ii) the total emergency department admissions; (iii) the total ambulance attendances; (iv) total number of ambulance transfers to another hospital; and (v) median wait times for triage by triage category?
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Answered
3 December 2014
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Health
Response time
42 days
(a)(i-v) [See tabled paper no]
A number of generally smaller Emergency Services, including some sites in the broader South West Region, have median waiting times of zero for all triage categories. At some sites this is due to recording identical times for the time of triaging and the time seen by a nurse. The subsequent subtraction of triage time from the time seen by the nurse yields a figure of zero for the waiting time to be seen. Where this occurs in more than 50% of cases the median will be zero.
The time that the nurse sees the patient is intended to represent the time that the nurse commences treatment. Where treatment follows directly after triage a small or no waiting time is expected and for Emergency Services with low activity most patients will be able to be seen immediately after triage.
The rollout of the WebPAS Patient administration system is expected to lead to opportunities for further training and review of accurate data entry practices. The deployment of WebPAS in the South West is being planned to occur over the next twelve (12) months.
A number of generally smaller Emergency Services, including some sites in the broader South West Region, have median waiting times of zero for all triage categories. At some sites this is due to recording identical times for the time of triaging and the time seen by a nurse. The subsequent subtraction of triage time from the time seen by the nurse yields a figure of zero for the waiting time to be seen. Where this occurs in more than 50% of cases the median will be zero.
The time that the nurse sees the patient is intended to represent the time that the nurse commences treatment. Where treatment follows directly after triage a small or no waiting time is expected and for Emergency Services with low activity most patients will be able to be seen immediately after triage.
The rollout of the WebPAS Patient administration system is expected to lead to opportunities for further training and review of accurate data entry practices. The deployment of WebPAS in the South West is being planned to occur over the next twelve (12) months.
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