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MINISTER FOR HEALTH

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 325

Calvary and Woden Valley Hospitals -
Emergency Departments

Ms Szuty - asked the Minister for Health:

In relation to arrangements at the emergency departments of both Calvary and Woden Valley Hospitals

(1) In what ways are the procedures of the emergency departments of Calvary and Woden Valley Hospitals both similar and different.

(2) What is the current level of demand for emergency services.

(3) Has demand exceeded current expectations.

(4) Under what circumstances are patients admitted to general

hospital wards from the emergency departments.

Under what guidelines do hospital staff admit patients to general hospital wards from the emergency departments.

(6) Are the following specialists, both physicians and surgeons, on call

at all times to attend to patients admitted to the emergency

departments of both Calvary and Woden Valley Hospitals:

Cardiologists; Thoracic specialists; Dermatologists;

Gastroenterologists; Neurologists; Renal physicians;

Rheumatologists; Psychiatrists; Obstetricians; Gynaecologists;

Vascular surgeons; Cardio-thoracic surgeons; Orthopaedic

surgeons; Urologists; Neurosurgeons; Ear, Nose and Throat

specialists; Paediatricians; Plastic surgeons; Facial/Maxilo surgeons;

Ophthalmologists; and Radiologists

(a) if yes, under what circumstances are they called out to attend to

patients and (b) if not, why not.

In what circumstances are patients transferred to Woden Valley Hospital from Calvary Hospital.

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