Effective: 30 June 2019
The OBM Policy ensures the integrity and consistent application of the 2019-20 Outcome Based Management Framework across the WA health system. It outlines how outcomes, services and key performance indicators are used to measure performance of Health Service Providers against Treasury approved parameters.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 January 2018 - 30 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: 30 June 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: 30 March 2010 - 30 March 2012
The WA Health Criminal Record Screening Policy and Guidelines were developed in consultation with key stakeholders across Health.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 22 December 2016 - 21 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: 31 May 2015 - 31 May 2020
The new Guidelines, which include the WA Health Protection of Children Policy, are the primary initial resource to support all WA Health employees to comply with their legal and professional responsibilities in protection of children matters.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 23 February 2014 - 23 February 2024
The aim of this Operational Directive is to inform Health Services of the commencement of a metropolitan centralised referral allocation system, commencing with outpatient services.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 8 May 2014 - 8 May 2019
This operational directive outlines the arrangement for the provision of loan equipment for DVA Entitled Persons. This arrangement covers admitted patients on discharge and non-admitted patients.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 29 November 2015 - 29 November 2020
This operational directive is to outline the principles and processes regarding the request and provision of further opinions under the Mental Health Act 2014. There have been some ammendments since it was previously approved.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2017 - 30 September 2022
The purpose of the Information Access, Use and Disclosure Policy is to facilitate lawful and appropriate information access, use and disclosure.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 August 2017 - 29 June 2021
The purpose of this Policy is to advise applicable health services of the requirement to capture and report data on Phase of Care and Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living (RUG-ADL) data for patients admitted to hospital with a care type of Palliative Care.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 13 November 2011 - 13 November 2011
This document contains policies and guidelines that apply to all Western Australian Public and Community Health Services providing immunisation services in WA. The cold chain is a system of transporting and storing vaccines within a recommended temperature range.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 August 2014 - 3 August 2019
This operational directive provides guidance to needle and syringe program health sites which fall under the mandate, as a means to provide access to sterile needles and syringes and support safer injecting practices in rural and regional areas. The intended health outcome is the prevention of blood-borne virus transmission and other injecting-related harms in rural and regional areas.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 August 2014 - 3 August 2019
This operational directive applies to all individual sites invited by the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program (SHBBVP) to install and operate a needle and syringe vending machine (NSVM).
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 11 March 2015 - 11 March 2020
WA Health's Business Continuity Management (BCM) policy aims to support and foster an organisational culture that proactively manages the impact of uncertainty and disruption-related risk on the organisation's strategic and operational objectives.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 31 May 2016 - 30 June 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 24 October 2018 - 17 October 2020
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.
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 April 2018 - 3 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 13 June 2017 - 31 May 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 15 November 2009 - 14 November 2019
Outlines responsibilities of public maternity hospitals in relation to neonatal screening for permanent congenital hearing loss.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 31 December 2010 - 30 December 2016
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to hospitals and health services with respect to the provision of aids, equipment and home modifications by WA Health for WA Health patients.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 2 April 2017 - 2 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 November 2011 - 30 November 2017
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: 19 August 2017 - 15 August 2020
The purpose of this Policy is to provide for the engagement of Interns and their subsequent successful transition to Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Yr 1 and Yr 2 for a fixed term period of three years.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 6 July 2015 - 6 July 2018
The 2015 Memorandum of Understanding on Clinical Privileges, Conduct and Governance in Western Australian Government Hospitals and Health Services came into effect from 7 July 2015.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 22 November 2018 - 21 November 2021
The Management of Accrued Leave Policy has been developed in response to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, Public Sector Labour Relations Policy Statement - Management of Accrued Leave in the Public Sector (DMIRS Policy Statement).
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Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 January 2014 - 21 January 2019
This operational directive outlines the billing arrangements between Western Australia (WA) and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) for pharmaceuticals, nursing home type patient (NHTP) contribution for ex-Prisoners of War (POW) and Victoria Cross (VC) recipients and post discharge services provided to Entitled Persons.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 January 2014 - 21 January 2019
This operational directive outlines the arrangement for the provision of aids or equipment, home assessment and home modification for DVA Entitled Persons. This arrangement covers admitted patients on discharge and non-admitted patients.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 January 2014 - 21 January 2019
This operational directive outlines the requirement for all Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) Entitled Persons to sign the DVA Patient Election Form on admission or during the course of their hospital stay.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 26 July 2015 - 18 March 2018
Notification of requirements for progression to Dental Technician Advanced Level 1 and Level 2 as prescribed by the Dental Technicians Industrial Agreement 2015
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 31 July 2017 - 9 August 2020
The purpose of the policy is for Health Service Providers to provide access to a range of inpatient, outpatient and community based alcohol and other drug withdrawal services closer to home to meet the needs of their communities.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 5 June 2018 - 29 June 2019
The purpose of this Policy is to ensure Health Service Providers are aware of and use appropriately the mandatory arrangements in place for the purchase of all road based Inter Hospital Patient Transport (IHPT) services in Western Australia.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 3 October 2017 - 3 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2016 - 30 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: 3 October 2017 - 3 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 1 December 2016 - 1 December 2021
The Managing Unsatisfactory and Substandard Performance Policy (Policy) is part of the Employment Policy Framework issued by the Department CEO pursuant to section 26 of the Health Services Act 2016 (HSA).
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 8 August 2017 - 8 August 2020
All health services in WA are required to comply with the Mental Health Act 2014 and the Mental Health Regulations 2015. Individuals who are subject to Transport Orders (Form 4A) under the Mental Health Act 2014 may require Inter Hospital Patient Transport (IHPT) between Department of Health Metropolitan Hospital Sites (DoHMHSs), IHPT from DoHMHS to Bunbury Mental Health Service or transport from various locations in the metropolitan Community to a DoHMHS or to Bunbury Mental Health Service.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 November 2018 - 30 April 2021
The purpose of this policy is to ensure individuals in the community requiring mental health status reviews are seen and assessed by appropriately trained clinicians.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2018
The purpose of this policy is to advise relevant Health Service Providers and Contracted Health Entities of the current and new requirements related to recording and reporting of non-admitted patient referrals and activity.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 5 August 2010 - 4 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: 30 June 2017 - 29 June 2020
The purpose of this is policy to advise applicable health service providers and contracted health entities of the requirement to capture and report data on Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living for patients admitted to hospital with a care type of Maintenance Care.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2016 - 29 June 2021
WA Health is committed to maintaining efficient and effective internal audit functions as required by the FMA through the provision of independent and objective assurance and consulting activities. This will assist WA Health accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and contribute to the improvement of risk management, control and governance processes.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 31 May 2018 - 30 June 2021
The data provision requirements of Health Service Providers and Contracted Health Entities for the purposes of the Elective Services Wait List Data Collection (ESWLDC), to ensure the Department of Health WA can fulfil mandatory reporting requirements.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2017 - 29 June 2019
Health data collected by the WA health system is subject to national reporting requirements. The WA health system is therefore required to code admitted care in accordance with these requirements and must use the current version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Australian Modification; Australian Classification of Health Interventions; and Australian Coding Standards (ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS).
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 21 February 2018 - 30 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.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 30 June 2016 - 29 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: 4 October 2017
The Procurement Development and Management System Policy (PDMS) mandates the use of the PDMS by Health Service Providers when undertaking procurement and contract management.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks
Effective: 13 February 2017
The Sponsorship Policy replaces the previous WA Health Sponsorship Policy OD 0266/10. It more clearly defines process requirements for establishing sponsorship arrangements, and caters to both incoming and outgoing sponsorships.
Source:
Department of Health - Policy Frameworks