Health—Child specialists—Recruitment
126. Hon Donna Faragher to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to the article in The West Australian titled "Amber Jade Sanderson says paediatrics is 'emotionally draining', as WA tries to recruit more child specialists", which states:
… the Government had put in a range of measures to meet increased child development demand, including funding almost 100 extra staffing positions in the last budget. Of those, 48 have been filled.
(1) Have all staffing positions now been filled and, if not, how many have been filled to date?
(2) Can the minister provide a breakdown, by position and FTE, of all staffing positions that have been filled?
Hon Pierre Yang replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The following has been provided by the Minister for Health.
(1) There have been 91.5 FTEs.
(2) As of 31 March 2025, there have been 65.9 clinical administration FTEs, 17.7 clinical administration FTEs and 7.9 non-clinical support FTEs.
