Legislative Council

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Child health nurses

96. Hon Donna Faragher to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:

I refer to community child health nurses employed by the Department of Health.

(1) How many positions are currently vacant for community health nurses, by FTE, in —

(a) the Child and Adolescent Health Service; and

(b) the WA Country Health Service?

Hon Pierre Yang replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question, as usual. The following answer has been provided by the Minister for Health.

(1) (a) There are 16 FTE.

(b) There are 15.14 FTE.