❓ A parliamentary question seeks details on the investigation into suicides at Kalgoorlie Hospital, including the number, nature, and implementation status of resulting recommendations. The answer cites legal privilege preventing disclosure.
AnsweredQoN 4405Legislative Council
QuestionView source ↗
I refer to the investigation into the issues at Kalgoorlie Hospital in relation to the suicides, and I ask -
1. How many recommendations resulted from the investigation?
2. What were these recommendations?
3. Have these recommendations been implemented?
4. If no to (3), why not?
5. If yes to (3), how many of these recommendations have been implemented?
6. What recommendations were those?
1. How many recommendations resulted from the investigation?
2. What were these recommendations?
3. Have these recommendations been implemented?
4. If no to (3), why not?
5. If yes to (3), how many of these recommendations have been implemented?
6. What recommendations were those?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
22 September 2011
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health
Response time
44 days
(1) - (6)
An internal clinical quality assurance review of service processes at Kalgoorlie Hospital was conducted within the WA Country Health Service.
Root cause analyses (RCAs) are generally conducted following serious clinical events, and in particular sentinel events. Mental health sentinel events fall into two categories: the national definition (which only covers suicide in an inpatient unit), and the state-wide definition (which includes the unexpected death of a mental health client (whether being treated as an inpatient or outpatient). Either of these categories would result in an automatic RCA.
The information arising from the RCAs is protected under AIMS qualified privilege via the Commonwealth
Health Insurance Act 1973.
This legislation prohibits release of this information to third parties.
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An internal clinical quality assurance review of service processes at Kalgoorlie Hospital was conducted within the WA Country Health Service.
Root cause analyses (RCAs) are generally conducted following serious clinical events, and in particular sentinel events. Mental health sentinel events fall into two categories: the national definition (which only covers suicide in an inpatient unit), and the state-wide definition (which includes the unexpected death of a mental health client (whether being treated as an inpatient or outpatient). Either of these categories would result in an automatic RCA.
The information arising from the RCAs is protected under AIMS qualified privilege via the Commonwealth
Health Insurance Act 1973.
This legislation prohibits release of this information to third parties.
Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on
http://www.rtlib.com
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