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Question and Answer Tracking Details

2519 - EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT REGISTRARS

Hornery, Sonia to the Minister for Health, and Minister for Medical Research
  1. As at July 2012, how many full-time equivalent Emergency Department registrars are employed at the:
    1. John Hunter Hospital;
    2. Calvary Mater Hospital?
  2. How many positions are filled and how many are vacant?
  3. What staffing enhancements are planned to increase full-time equivalent staff registrars in Emergency Medicine for 2012-13?
Answer -

I am advised:

  1. to (3) Staffing levels are determined and adjusted as required by local management in line with patient need and specific award and benchmark tools.
    At any one time hospitals operate with a degree of staff vacancies. However, where vacancies exist, temporary qualified staff are employed where required pending recruitment to these positions.

Question asked on 14 August 2012 (session 55-1) and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 104
Answer received on 18 September 2012 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 116