Effective: 31 January 2018 - 31 December 2023
The purpose of the Statewide Medicines Formulary (SMF) Policy (the policy) is to assist the delivery of optimal patient outcomes in an equitable manner through a single list of approved medicines.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016
The purpose of the Recruitment, Selection and Appointment Policy (Policy) is to provide a consistent approach across the WA health system by outlining the minimum requirements and responsibilities of the Department of Health and Health Service Providers (WA health system entities), for recruitment, selection and appointment processes. The WA health system has a commitment to promoting equity and diversity in its workforce and has identified Aboriginal people as a priority diversity group.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 23 December 2016 - 22 December 2018
The purpose of the Clinical Academic Funding Policy is to inform Health Service Providers of procedures that apply to the funding of the appointment of clinical academics.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 June 2016 - 1 July 2021
The Principle of the Policy is to ensure that the Department CEO is provided with timely and useful information in regard to External Reviews to enable proper evaluation of the impact of Review outcomes on one or more HSP's or across the whole WA health system.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 4 April 2018 - 4 January 2021
The purpose of this policy is to ensure Health Service Providers who provide publicly funded inpatient care. engage/employ clinical staff with the right qualification and skill-set to provide safe, high quality health care.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 14 June 2017 - 1 June 2021
The WA Clinical Alert (MedAlert) Policy (the Policy) mandates the implementation of a standardised process of communicating clinical alerts across the WA health system using the PAS (Patient Administration System) for example TOPAS, webPAS, or HCare.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 April 2017 - 3 April 2022
This policy is to assist, educate and enable midwives and medical practitioners to care safely for healthy pregnant women who choose to use the bath and / or pool during all stages of their labour and birth.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 4 October 2017 - 4 October 2020
The Policy outlines the requirement for health professionals to provide mental health consumers and, if applicable, their family members or carers with timely verbal and written information for every medication prescribed or reviewed for the consumer.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016 - 31 December 2018
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to Western Australian public mental health services for the development of procedures aimed at reducing the likelihood of consumers going missing from services and at guiding the response of services when a consumer is determined to be missing.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 4 October 2017 - 4 October 2020
This Policy requires all applicable services to offer individuals who present to the emergency department for mental health assessment and/or treatment, or with mental health-related concerns, with contact numbers for mental health emergency response services prior to discharge from the emergency department. If applicable, the individual's family members and carers should also be offered contact numbers for mental health emergency response services prior to the individual's discharge from the emergency department.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 22 February 2018 - 31 January 2021
This policy provides that all proposals for the development or amendment of primary or subsidiary legislation on behalf of the Minister for Health are to be submitted to Legal and Legislative Services for coordination at an early stage using the Request for Legal Advice Form.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2018
This mandatory policy is to ensure that HSPs seek legal advice prior to engaging in a Commercial Activity pursuant to section 35 of the Health Services Act 2016.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 27 September 2018 - 27 September 2021
WA Health aims to develop, deliver and provide maternal and newborn services that are safe, integrated, effective, and responsive to the individual needs of women and their babies. The purpose of this Policy is to ensure Health Service Providers support safe and high quality maternity care within the Western Australian public health system by enabling Endorsed Midwives to access public maternity units through a Licensing Agreement for the purposes of delivering maternity services to their private clients.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 14 February 2017 - 31 December 2021
The objectives of this Policy are to: Provide consistent and standard air travel procurement practices across WA Health that ensure transparency, streamline and standardise processes and reduce the cost of travel across WA Health, ensure the travel provides benefits to the WA Health system, provide adequate control over, and accountability for, air travel and associated travel expenditure and ensure adequate public disclosure of the full cost of air travel undertaken by WA Health employees.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 13 December 2017 - 13 October 2020
This policy relates to consumers of all ages who are under the care of public mental health services. It is applicable in some non-mental health settings such as Emergency Departments and general hospitals when a person has been accepted for care by a mental health service and there consequently exists a duty of care.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 January 2019
The purpose of the this policy is to guide Western Australian providers of Public mental health care in the development of Policy to support the provision of evidence-informed clinical care for consumers with mental health problems at risk of becoming violent or aggressive.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 November 2017 - 21 November 2020
The Emergency Management Policy sets the minimum standards to ensure that the WA Health System has suitable arrangements in place to ensure adequate preparation for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies, disasters, and other disruptive events. A number of Operational Directives listed within the policy will be rescinded and replaced by this policy.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2017 - 1 July 2022
High quality data in the health sector is needed to support patient care, funding, management, planning, monitoring, reporting and strategic decision making.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2019
The purpose of this policy is to provide a broad overview to WA Health employees about: a) The Common law duty of confidentiality that is owed to WA Health patients; and b) The exceptions to that common law duty of confidentiality c) The statutory duty of confidentiality and permissible disclosures introduced by the Health Services Act 2016.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2021
This mandatory policy is to ensure that all matters relating to the application of the terms and conditions of contractual medical indemnities are referred to Legal and Legislative Services.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2018
This mandatory policy is to ensure that Health Service Providers notify the CEO of the Department of Health of the proposed collection of human gametes and/or any legal proceedings and ensure that Legal and Legislative Services act as instructing officers in any relevant legal proceedings.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 18 October 2018 - 1 October 2021
The purpose of the My Health Record (MHR) Policy is to set standards for Health Service Providers regarding the appropriate use of the MHR.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
This policy establishes the Western Australian Government Medical Services Schedules which prescribe medical procedures and the corresponding fees payable to a Contracted Medical Practitioner engaged under a Fee for Service Medical Services Agreement.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 9 May 2018 - 30 April 2022
This Policy establishes the process by which each Health Service Provider will exercise its rights and obligations to enforce the terms of a Medical Services Agreement relating to the professional conduct of a Contracted Medical Practitioner. The Policy will ensure Contracted Medical Practitioners are afforded procedural fairness where disputes arise.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 February 2021
The Health Technology Governance Policy is a statewide framework for the introduction of health technologies and associated review of existing health technologies used within the WA public health system.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 19 April 2018
The WA Medication Chart Policy mandates the implementation of a suite of standardised medication charts for prescribing and administration of medications for inpatient care.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 18 October 2018
The objective of the Clinical Handover Policy (the Policy) is to ensure clinical handover is conducted in a similarly structured manner across WA Health Service Providers. The requirements of this Policy are supported by the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (2nd ed.), Standard 6 Communicating for Safety Standard.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 10 May 2018
The purpose of this Policy is to ensure health professionals are credentialed and have a defined scope of clinical practice to support safe and high quality health care within the Western Australian public health system.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016
Grants are financial assistance arrangements paid to non-State Government entities to assist them to carry out activities that drive outcomes aligned with the WA health system’s strategic intent.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 March 2017
This Policy aims to ensure that WA health system entities entering into a sponsorship arrangement do so in a manner that achieves value for money and is consistent with the goals and objectives of the WA health system.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 July 2016
WA health system entities are required to maintain procurement and contracts records under a range of legislated and State policy requirements including the State Records Act 2000, and General Procurement Direction: 2021/01 – Western Australian Procurement Rules issued by the Minister for Finance under section 21 of the Procurement Act 2020 (WA).
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 9 August 2018
The Acceptable Use of lCT and Information Security policies are two high risk policies that, together, provide a framework underpinning many of the digital security strategies employed in the WA health system. The Information Security policy outlines the security controls required to be implemented, monitored and reviewed across the WA health system. It aligns to the principles of the Australian Standards for information security management which support a risk-based approach to information security that is appropriate to sensitivity, risk profile and business need. It outlines actions that all staff need to take and additional actions for lCT staff, including those at HSS.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 December 2020
The Information Retention and Disposal Policy mandates retention and disposal requirements for information held within the WA health system.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 6 August 2010 - 5 July 2015
This protocol has been updated to ensure consistency with Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Abuse in Children under 18 years of age and will continue to operate independently of the Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Abuse in Children under 18 years (OD 0185/09).
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 22 November 2018
The purpose of this Policy is to ensure that all mental health assessments undertaken in the community are conducted by mental health clinicians where it is safe to do so.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 6 September 2017
The purpose of the Aboriginal Cultural eLearning (ACeL) Policy (Policy) is to build the cultural knowledge of the WA health system workforce and strengthen its capacity to provide health care that is culturally respectful and non-discriminatory.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 April 2017 - 3 April 2022
The WA Health Language Services Policy ensures the provision of interpreting and translating services to facilitate effective and consumer- focused communication between consumers and carers and HSP staff, and promotes fundamental consumer rights such as access to high quality care, safety, respect, communication and participation.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 November 2019
The purpose of the Clinical Incident Management (CIM) Policy (Policy) is to ensure Health Service Providers implement consistent and accountable processes and systems for the management of clinical incidents with the goal to prevent harm to patients and improve patient safety.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 28 January 2020
This Policy sets out the minimum requirements for responding to requests for the release of human tissue or an implantable medical device that has been removed (explanted) from an individual’s body. Human tissue in the context of this Policy includes a human fetus or placenta. This Policy supersedes OD 0398/12 Release of Human Tissue and Explanted Medical Devices.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 23 August 2017 - 21 September 2021
his Policy outlines the minimum requirements for the management of Peripheral Intravenous Cannulae (PIVC). This policy applies to all HCFs within the WA health system. These HCFs are to align their policies for the insertion and management of PIVCs with this document to ensure a standardised level of care and to minimise the risk of patients developing infective complications from PIVC.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Consent to treatment is a person’s agreement for a health professional to proceed with specific proposed treatment(s). That agreement is obtained (or withheld) following conversations between one or more health professionals and the patient/substitute decision maker about the proposed treatment(s) and their inherent risks and benefits. Consent communications are likely to comprise of one or more verbal exchanges between the patient and the health professional(s), and also in the case of more invasive or risky procedures, documentation of that exchange including written consent provided by the patient.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 August 2017
The purpose of the policy is to ensure that those requiring Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) withdrawal treatment receive timely clinical care, including activating appropriate referral pathways where required.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 2 June 2014
The Specialist Outpatient Services Access Policy is the single document to guide Health Services in the delivery and management for specialist outpatient appointments, with an emphasis on discharging patients from specialist outpatient services to their primary health care providers.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 December 2011
As a strategy to enhance patient flow, on ambulance arrival at a metropolitan Emergency Department (ED) patients are to be triaged by the ED Triage Nurse in consultation with the Ambulance Officer, and where clinically appropriate, patients are to be directed to the ED waiting room.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 31 March 2010
The WA Health Criminal Record Screening Policy and Guidelines were developed in consultation with key stakeholders across Health.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks