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In 2022-23, the department continued to support health service providers in the delivery of over 100 infrastructure projects across the WA health system, including redevelopment of Joondalup Health Campus, upgrade to the Bunbury Regional Hospital, and the Peel Health Campus transformation. The Women and Babies Hospital project team is planning the relocation of King Edward Memorial Hospital to a site within the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct in Murdoch. Osborne Park Hospital will expand its theatres, obstetrics, gynaecology, and neonatal services. A new family birth centre will also be built alongside Osborne Park Hospital. The department supported implementation of 4 modular facilities to free up hospital beds for patients requiring acute care. The innovative 30-bed modular wards at Osborne Park Hospital, Rockingham General Hospital, Bentley Hospital and Bunbury Regional Hospital are the first of their kind. The facilities have helped enhance bed capacity across WA Health, delivering 120 extra beds into the system for low-to-medium acuity patients. Following submission of the first business case of the Graylands Reconfiguration and Forensic Taskforce, funding was obtained for Stage 1 works of the project. This funding will enable the construction of at least 53 additional forensic mental health beds, inclusive of 48 non-acute beds and a 5 bed child and adolescent unit. It will also enable consideration of a central patient services hub, site works, roads and secure fencing, and a 12-bed expansion to the already approved Bentley Secure Extended Care Unit. An updated business case is required to be submitted to the Major Projects Expenditure Review Sub-Committee to address options and finalise costings for the Stage 1 works. Future business cases will also be submitted to seek additional funding to complete the forensic mental health expansion at Graylands and start rebalancing the WA mental health system with the introduction of contemporary rehabilitation and recovery beds. Key projects to support innovative ways of working continued in 2022-23. The first stage of the Electronic Medical Record Program, to lay the digital foundation for modernising health care and future-proof hospitals across WA, continues to be implemented. As planned, the Digital Medical Record system has been rolled out in 2022-23 to Rockingham Peel Group, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Great Southern and Goldfields regions, and the remaining sites in the Pilbara region. The Digital Medical Record system will be implemented at Perth Children's Hospital, Armadale and Kalamunda Hospitals in the second half of 2023. The new Enterprise Medical Imaging Platform was also introduced at Rockingham and Murray District Hospitals in March 2023, and Fremantle and Fiona Stanley Hospitals in April 2023. The platform offers improved digital diagnostic imaging for clinicians and medical staff through a suite of integrated applications. The Statewide Telestroke Service, enabling clinicians in rural, remote, and outer metropolitan areas to seek expert advice from leading stroke consultants at the state's tertiary hospitals, reached its one-year milestone in September 2022. By 30 June 2023, more than 680 Telestroke initial and follow-up consultations had been provided to stroke patients across Western Australia. This service experienced a 121 per cent increased demand between 1 January to 31 May 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. The Statewide Telestroke Service was expanded to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 31 July 2023. The department continued to focus on improving emergency access and tackling ambulance ramping and bed block. Establishment of the WA Virtual Emergency Department (WAVED) is underway and will give patients the option of being seen virtually in the comfort of their own home when safe and appropriate to do so, rather than waiting in an emergency department. A WAVED 'proof of concept' model will soon commence in a phased approach to allow for testing, risk mitigation and ongoing monitoring of outcomes. Residential aged care facility patients will be prioritised in the initial phase of this WAVED concept. In addition, health service providers in the metropolitan area will establish or expand local pilot models that support the WAVED model by providing alternative care pathways to in-person emergency department attendance and or admittance. The department also commenced scoping of the WA Health Community Services Strategy. This work will identify and address gaps in pathways for service alternatives to emergency departments. The new State Health Operations Centre at the department has recently been established and will focus on improving coordination and collaboration between hospitals and other health services to improve patient flow and easing pressures on the health system including the demand on emergency departments. Contents About us < 27 > Significant issues Report on operations Agency performance Operational disclosures ⚫Key performance indicators • Financial disclosures and compliance • Appendix

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