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.