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Parliamentary Questions


Question On Notice No. 302 asked in the Legislative Council on 12 October 2021 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Question Directed to the: Minister for Mental Health representing the Minister for Health
Parliament: 41 Session: 1


Question

I refer again to the provision of orthotics at the South West Health Campus in Bunbury and the Busselton Hospital, and I ask:
(a) does the South West Health Campus in Bunbury currently have a policy that an orthotist is the only allied health professional able to fit orthoses to patients;
(b) has the South West Health Campus ever had such a policy and, if so, when was it changed; and
(c) what is the professional salaried level of the person fitting spinal braces at the South West Health Campus?

Answered on 16 November 2021

I am advised:

(a)-(b) No.

In relation to spinal braces, Bunbury Hospital utilises the Royal Perth Hospital Clinical Practice Standard for a Patient with an Acute Spinal Injury. 

(c) The physiotherapists fitting spinal orthoses are salaried P1 and P2 physiotherapists who are experienced and have had additional training to meet the clinical practice standard to fit these orthoses.