Question - Canberra Health Services

Question

Number
1345
Subject
Canberra Health Services
(Midwife staffing)
Asked by
Castley, Leanne
Directed to
Minister for Health
Question asked on
30 August 2023
Answer due on
02 October 2023
Question asked
  1. Can the Minister provide a table of the number of nurses and midwives with excess leave as published in CHSFOI21-22.23 for (a) January 2023 and (b) July 2023.
  2. How many midwifery graduates, for the past 10 years, (a) applied for a role at Canberra Health Services (CHS), (b) were offered a role at CHS and (c) commenced with CHS.
  3. Has a review into the midwifery continuity of care model recently been undertaken or completed; if so (a) has this review been made public; if not, why not, (b) will the review be made public, (c) who has seen this review, (d) what were the recommendations in the review and (d) has the Government agreed to all the recommendations; if not, which ones have they not agreed to.

Answer

Answer Published
24 October 2023
Answered by
Minister for Health
Answer

(1) The table below provides a breakdown of excess leave hours by classification for nurses and midwives as of January 2023 and July 2023. Access to leave continues to be prioritised across the organisation to enable staff to take a break. Changes in excess hours can occur for a range of reasons including re-classification or staff members joining the organisation with excess leave hours.

Classification

January 2023

July 2023

Variance

Head Count

Excess hours

Head

Count

Excess Hours

AIN

10

881.11

11

818.99

-62.12

EN1

26

5044.22

26

2741.38

-2302.84

EN2

2

70.34

1

111.88

41.54

EN2P

1

0.63

1

68.42

67.79

NURPRA

2

171.61

1

157.72

-13.89

RM1

6

1753.73

6

1997.24

243.51

RM2

17

2243.11

10

1531.39

-711.72

RM2C

2

148.88

4

311.89

163.01

RM2P

1

98.42

2

291.84

193.42

RM3

3

222.44

3

317.37

94.93

RM3G2

3

1297.47

3

1502.67

205.2

RM4.3

1

36.55

1

32.34

-4.21

RN1

158

20782.43

166

22839.65

2057.22

RN2

119

16971.97

120

17065.91

93.94

RN2C

17

2154.97

19

3470.35

1315.38

RN2P

25

2916.18

23

3048.69

132.51

RN2S

0

0

1

172.64

172.64

RN3

12

1937.21

11

1462.08

-475.13

RN3.1

34

4769.68

34

4487.59

-282.09

RN3G2

33

4521.63

35

4963.83

442.2

RN4.1

4

531.9

3

356.04

-175.86

RN4.2

1

23.79

1

23.57

-0.22

RN4.3

8

1019.59

9

1317.24

297.65

RN5.4

1

151.04

0

0

-151.04

RN5.5

3

398.59

4

408.31

9.72

Total 

489

68147.49

495

69499.03

1351.54

*Reported above Excess Hours does not take into account future leave taken 

*Leave applications submitted in retrospect are typically not recorded in end of month reporting

 

(2) The below table provides statistics for midwifery graduates at the Canberra Hospital (TCH) for the past 10 years.

Year

Applied

Offered

Commenced

2012

25

16

16

2013

27

10

10

2014

21

10

10

2015

13

13

13

2016

14

8

8

2017

19

13

13

2018 

22

16

16

2019

22

9

9

2020

20

20

20

2021

20

19

19

2022

17

17

17

 

(3) Canberra Health Services (CHS) has not undertaken or completed a review into the midwifery continuity of care model. An external Midwifery Advisor, Ms Patrice Hickey, has undertaken consultations and analysis to provide advice on the midwifery programs at CHS such as the Maternity in Focus System Plan. Ms Hickey has met with various groups and individuals and has provided feedback and observations to assist CHS with system improvement of current midwifery service delivery. At this stage CHS has not received any formal report or recommendations and no recommendations have been made to the Government.

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