METROPOLITAN CHILD
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — WAIT TIMES
46. Hon DONNA FARAGHER to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to metropolitan child
development services.
Will the minister advise the
current median wait times for children in primary school years of schooling to
access the following services—speech pathology, occupational therapy,
and physiotherapy?
Hon
ALANNA CLOHESY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
The median wait times are: for
speech pathology, 4.8 months; for occupational therapy, 3.3 months; and for
physiotherapy, 0.9 months.