❓ Ms. Davies questions the Minister for Health regarding WA Country Health Service taking over Silver Chain's remote nursing posts. The Minister assures a staged transition to maintain services, but cannot provide exact timing details.
AnsweredQoN 917Legislative Assembly
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WA COUNTRY HEALTH
SERVICE — SILVER CHAIN
917. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the WA Country Health
Service taking over the operation of 11 remote area nursing posts currently
managed by Silver Chain.
(1) How and when will that
transition occur?
(2) Can the minister guarantee that no community will
see a reduction in services or operating hours as a result of this
transition, and that the level of staffing for in-person services will be
maintained or increased?
SERVICE — SILVER CHAIN
917. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Minister for Health:
I refer to the WA Country Health
Service taking over the operation of 11 remote area nursing posts currently
managed by Silver Chain.
(1) How and when will that
transition occur?
(2) Can the minister guarantee that no community will
see a reduction in services or operating hours as a result of this
transition, and that the level of staffing for in-person services will be
maintained or increased?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) I
cannot give the member exact details around timing. What I can tell her is that
Silver Chain came to us and handed it over; it did not want to do it anymore.
We are in a position in which in order to maintain the service, the WA Country
Health Service is going to step in. Like many services across regional and
remote Western Australia, they are very expensive to run, but people have a right
to access this service. It will be a staged approach around the handover of
those sites. I do not have that information in front of me, but it will be a very
staged approach. The aim, of course, will be to maintain services. Hopefully,
all those staff will want to come over to WACHS, bearing in mind that some of
those staff have worked for Silver Chain for
some time. It will be their choice about whether they want to come over. The
approach we are taking is to maintain that service by filling the gap as
the private provider no longer wishes to remain. We will do that with a staged
and steady approach.
cannot give the member exact details around timing. What I can tell her is that
Silver Chain came to us and handed it over; it did not want to do it anymore.
We are in a position in which in order to maintain the service, the WA Country
Health Service is going to step in. Like many services across regional and
remote Western Australia, they are very expensive to run, but people have a right
to access this service. It will be a staged approach around the handover of
those sites. I do not have that information in front of me, but it will be a very
staged approach. The aim, of course, will be to maintain services. Hopefully,
all those staff will want to come over to WACHS, bearing in mind that some of
those staff have worked for Silver Chain for
some time. It will be their choice about whether they want to come over. The
approach we are taking is to maintain that service by filling the gap as
the private provider no longer wishes to remain. We will do that with a staged
and steady approach.
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