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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 966 asked in the Legislative Council on 11 November 2021 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

WA COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICE — MIDWIVES

966. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the minister representing the Minister for Health:

I will try a simple one. I refer to the shortage of midwives in Western Australia.

(1) Please table the email from the WA Country Health Service coordinator of midwifery to the WACHS maternity nursing unit manager and the associated email trail sent on Wednesday, 27 October 2021, at 8.46 am.

(2) What is the subject line of the email referred to in (1)?

(3) Please table the email from the WACHS chief operating officer to WACHS executive on Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 at 8.02 am.

(4) What is the subject line of the email referred to in (3)?

(5) Did a representative from the minister's office or the department previously advise any journalists that either of these emails were doctored?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The following information has been provided to me by the Minister for Health.

(1) I table the attached document.

[See paper 870.]

(2) It is ''Super Urgent Shout out for Midwives for the Pilbara''.

(3) Refer to (1).

(4) It is ''Super Urgent Shout out for Nurses for the Pilbara''.

(5) The email supplied by media to WA Country Health Service included a line around mandatory vaccinations that was not part of the original email. Note that the chief operating officer of WACHS advises that neither site reached service failure and that midwives had been found to support Hedland Health Campus.