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❓ Mr. Cook questions the Minister for Health about ambulance ramping at tertiary hospitals and Joondalup Hospital, seeking data on patient transfer times from St. John Ambulance to emergency departments. The Minister provides data on transfer times exceeding 30 minutes, between 20-30 minutes, percentage under 30 minutes, and median transfer times.

AnsweredQoN 4182Legislative Assembly

Asked

24 June 2015

Member

Mr R.H. Cook

Portfolio

Health

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I refer to the Minister’s new plan to ban ambulance ramping. Can the Minister please outline, for each of the tertiary hospitals and Joondalup Hospital: (a) the average daily number of patients that take longer than thirty minutes to transfer from St. Johns Ambulance to emergency department staff; (b) the average daily number of patients that take between twenty and thirty minutes to transfer from St. Johns Ambulance to emergency department staff; (c) the average daily percentage of patients transferred from St. Johns Ambulance to emergency department staff inside thirty minutes; and (d) the median time taken to transfer from St. Johns Ambulance to emergency department staff?

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Answered

11 August 2015

Responded by

Minister for Health

Response time

48 days

(a-d)
Question
Royal
Perth Hospital
Sir
Charles
Gairdner Hospital
Fiona
Stanley Hospital
Joondalup Health Campus
(a)
14.2
6.8
12.8
13.2
(b)
15.4
13.4
18.1
7.9
(c)
80.5%
91.4%
83.4%
67.0%
(d)
17.5 minutes
14.0 minutes
17.6 minutes
20.9 minutes
Notes:
All data are preliminary and subject to change.
Data for this financial year has been provided from 01/07/2014 to 23/06/2015 apart from Fiona Stanley data which is from 03/02/2015 (opening) to 23/06/2015.
Data Source: Emergency Department figures have been sourced from the Emergency Department Data Collection which is populated from St John Ambulance Australia.
Extraction Date: 24/06/2015.

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