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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 177 asked in the Legislative Council on 11 March 2020 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

GERALDTON HEALTH CAMPUS — SECURITY

177. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:

I refer to Geraldton Health Campus.

(1) How many code black activations have occurred from 1 September 2019 to date?

(2) Please detail how the $100 000 in capital funding allocated to improve hospital security will be expended.

(3) Please detail how the $382 500 in recurrent funding to improve hospital security will be expended.

(4) Since the minister's announcements in August and October 2019 of the combined $11.23 million in funding to ''stop hospital violence and aggression'', how many additional security FTE have been deployed to the hospital?

Hon ALANNA CLOHESY replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) There were 51 code black activations from 1 September 2019 to 29 February 2020.

(2) The $100 000 in capital funding allocated to improve hospital security will be expended to upgrade the duress system to the community health building.

(3) The $382 500 in recurrent funding to improve hospital security will be expended to uplift the hospital onsite security presence.

(4) An additional 1.0 FTE of security has been deployed as at 11 March 2020, with a further 2.0 FTE currently being trained to start as soon as possible.