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(4) All patients within the Hospital or who are referred to the Intensive Care
Unit have been assessed by the Intensive Care Specialists. There have
been times when the intensive Care Specialist has decided that patients
industry refereed for admission to Intensive Care do not require it
immediately. These patients can be supported with High Dependency
Care within the ward situation, and therefore have not been admitted to
Intensive Care.
At times of high occupancy it has been necessary to delay arranged surgical ICU bed admissions. In addition, these have been several occasions where NSW outer-lying hospital admissions to Woden Valley Hospital have been deferred to Sydney hospitals. This also at times occurs without the knowledge of the Intensive Care Staff, so it is impossible w know ante numbers of these deferments.
A few patients have been transferred to Sydney hospitals because they have other injuries that cannot be adequately managed within the facility at Woden Valley Hospital Such cases are patients with spinal injuries.
(5) At the end of the roster period to 9 September 1992, the current nursing
staff number working in the Intensive Care Unit at Woden Valley
Hospital was 71.39 FIE (full time equivalent staff).
(6) The overtime bill for staff working in Intensive Care over the last six
months is as follows:
Bemis
March 1992 $2 927 $14 200*
April 1992 NIL $21900*#
May 1992 $7 544 $16 200*
June 1992 $12 467 $14 660*
July 1992 $1277 $14 819
August 1992 $7 814 $18 618#
* Estimate: During 1991/92 Registrars/RMOs were not charged
to their work areas. There are no accurate figures for the
intensive Care Unit. The estimate is based on a percentage of
total overtime.
# 3 pay periods in these months
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