Dr. Constable asks about Graylands Hospital admissions and psychotic episodes, including those linked to cannabis, for the financial years 1999-2003. The response provides data on admissions, types of psychotic episodes, and cannabis-related cases, noting a bed reduction in 2001/02.

AnsweredQoN 1294Legislative Assembly
Asked
20 March 2003
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(b) 1999/2000; (c) 2000/2001; (d) 2001/2002; and (e) 2002/2003?
(c) 2000/2001; (d) 2001/2002; and (e) 2002/2003?
(d) 2001/2002; and (e) 2002/2003?
(e) 2002/2003?

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Answered
3 April 2003
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
14 days
1.
The number of patients admitted to Graylands Hospital in the following financial years was:
(a) 1998/99 No information available
(b) 1999/00 2500 patients
(c) 2000/01 2531 patients
(d) 2001/02 2055 patients
(e) 2002/03 839 patients (preliminary data up to 31/12/02)
During 2001/02 Graylands closed 30 beds in stages to support the inpatient beds commissioned at Swan Mental Health unit in 2000/01. The reduction of admissions in 2001/02 is a reflection of this reconfiguration.
2.
(a) The following psychotic episodes for which treatment was provided include:
- Organic Amnesic
- Acute infective psychosis
- Organic psychosis
- Drug psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Schizotypal
- Paranoid psychosis
- Acute and transient psychosis
- Induced psychosis
- Psychotic depression
- Puerperal psychosis
(b) The total number of psychotic episodes for each financial year were:
1999/00: 1334
2000/01: 1360
2001/02: 1264
2002/03: 700 (preliminary data up to 31/12/02)
3.
The number of patients in (2) who experienced psychotic episodes that were attributable in part or in whole to cannabis use was:
1999/00: 30
2000/01: 16
2001/02: 19
2002/03: 16

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