❓ Mr. Taylor asks the Minister for Health to outline key achievements of Fiona Stanley Hospital in its first year. The Minister responds with statistics on patient numbers, procedures, and a perfect score from the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, defending the hospital against opposition criticism.
AnsweredQoN 76Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL —
ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
76. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Health:
Fiona Stanley Hospital has recently celebrated one year since being
fully opened. Can the minister please explain to the house some of the key
achievements in its first year?
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : I never even heard the end
of the question.
Mr
D.A. Templeman interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah! Repeat the question, member for Bateman.
Dr
A.D. Buti interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Armadale, I call
you to order for the first time. Just repeat that question.
Mr M.H. TAYLOR : Fiona Stanley Hospital recently celebrated
one year since being fully opened. Can the minister please explain to the house
some key achievements in its first year?
ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
76. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the Minister for
Health:
Fiona Stanley Hospital has recently celebrated one year since being
fully opened. Can the minister please explain to the house some of the key
achievements in its first year?
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : I never even heard the end
of the question.
Mr
D.A. Templeman interjected.
The SPEAKER : Member for Mandurah! Repeat the question, member for Bateman.
Dr
A.D. Buti interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Armadale, I call
you to order for the first time. Just repeat that question.
Mr M.H. TAYLOR : Fiona Stanley Hospital recently celebrated
one year since being fully opened. Can the minister please explain to the house
some key achievements in its first year?
AnswerView source ↗
Our fantastic hospital has now been one year in operation. It is the
first hospital in Western Australia to have 100 000 people present to it in one
year; 40 000 people have been admitted as inpatients; 285 000 appointments were
handled through outpatient clinics; 22 600 surgeries have been performed,
including 12 600 elective procedures; 29 kidney transplants and more than 30 heart
and lung transplants have been performed; more than 2 500 babies have been born
at the hospital; and 750 000 plated meals have been served to patients. That is
a pretty good effort. The hospital is actually working fantastically. For all
that the opposition kicks up about Fiona Stanley, I welcome it to keep going,
because I cannot go anywhere now without people stopping me—in the
street, sometimes, and in shopping centres—saying what a fantastic
experience they have had.
Several members interjected.
Dr K.D. HAMES : You keep going for it! You keep going for
it because it is not doing you any good, I can tell you! You should do a bit of
polling, guys, seriously—and you will shut up about Fiona Stanley if
you do, because what you will find when you are out there is that people are
angry at you a lot with your constant criticism of Fiona Stanley.
Listen to those numbers again—100 000 patients have been seen
and 40 000 patients have been admitted and there have been some enormously good
experiences there. I get a couple of letters from people where it has not been
so good, but I can tell members that I get a hell of a lot more from people who
say it is good. Generally, they are motivated to write in. They say that they
have been seeing all the rubbish I have been copping from the opposition. They
just want me to know, as minister, that they had a fantastic experience at that
hospital.
Several members interjected.
Dr K.D. HAMES : Members opposite will be getting the same:
what a fantastic experience they are getting in Albany. It will be the same in Busselton
for the member for Busselton, and in Kalgoorlie and in Esperance and in
Midland; and, of course, the new Children's Hospital that we talked
about yesterday. It has been a great progress in the management of the
hospital.
I am very pleased to report that we have just received results from the
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. It gave an interim assessment
against the national safety and quality health service standards that are
essentially about quality and safety of service within hospitals. Fiona Stanley
Hospital met all 158 core standards for interim recommendations, with no
recommendations, so a perfect score. It was a great effort by the staff at
Fiona Stanley Hospital.
first hospital in Western Australia to have 100 000 people present to it in one
year; 40 000 people have been admitted as inpatients; 285 000 appointments were
handled through outpatient clinics; 22 600 surgeries have been performed,
including 12 600 elective procedures; 29 kidney transplants and more than 30 heart
and lung transplants have been performed; more than 2 500 babies have been born
at the hospital; and 750 000 plated meals have been served to patients. That is
a pretty good effort. The hospital is actually working fantastically. For all
that the opposition kicks up about Fiona Stanley, I welcome it to keep going,
because I cannot go anywhere now without people stopping me—in the
street, sometimes, and in shopping centres—saying what a fantastic
experience they have had.
Several members interjected.
Dr K.D. HAMES : You keep going for it! You keep going for
it because it is not doing you any good, I can tell you! You should do a bit of
polling, guys, seriously—and you will shut up about Fiona Stanley if
you do, because what you will find when you are out there is that people are
angry at you a lot with your constant criticism of Fiona Stanley.
Listen to those numbers again—100 000 patients have been seen
and 40 000 patients have been admitted and there have been some enormously good
experiences there. I get a couple of letters from people where it has not been
so good, but I can tell members that I get a hell of a lot more from people who
say it is good. Generally, they are motivated to write in. They say that they
have been seeing all the rubbish I have been copping from the opposition. They
just want me to know, as minister, that they had a fantastic experience at that
hospital.
Several members interjected.
Dr K.D. HAMES : Members opposite will be getting the same:
what a fantastic experience they are getting in Albany. It will be the same in Busselton
for the member for Busselton, and in Kalgoorlie and in Esperance and in
Midland; and, of course, the new Children's Hospital that we talked
about yesterday. It has been a great progress in the management of the
hospital.
I am very pleased to report that we have just received results from the
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. It gave an interim assessment
against the national safety and quality health service standards that are
essentially about quality and safety of service within hospitals. Fiona Stanley
Hospital met all 158 core standards for interim recommendations, with no
recommendations, so a perfect score. It was a great effort by the staff at
Fiona Stanley Hospital.
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