HOSPITALS —
ADMISSIONS — TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY SERVICES
521. Hon WILSON TUCKER to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Health:
I
refer to the finding of the report of the Health Reform Committee of March
2004, based on data from the Department of Health, that less than one-fifth of hospital admissions in Perth
tertiary hospitals were for tertiary or quaternary services.
(1) Based on the
most recent available data, what percentage of hospital admissions in Perth
tertiary hospitals are for tertiary or quaternary services?
(2) What is the current average bed day cost in —
(a) tertiary hospitals;
(b) general metropolitan hospitals;
and
(c) country hospitals?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
It is not possible to provide the
requested information in the time required and I therefore ask the honourable member to place his question on notice. As Leader
of the House, I draw the honourable member's attention to the
fact that that is a lot of data required from a lot of different hospitals that
would need to be contacted within a four-hour period. The member is not going
to get an answer to a question like that within four hours.