Hospital Health Check has become such an integral part of the scrutiny of the Western Australian health system’s performance, it can be forgotten what a significant undertaking this entails each year.
It is a detailed survey requiring deep consideration of the changing scope of performance data, and modifications reflecting that. This work starts with the Industrial Relations team, in collaboration with representatives from the Doctors in Training (DiT) Practice Group. The really detailed work then begins once the data set has been returned by the statistician, and the team can start to consider just what the results are telling us about the system in the last year.
Over these pages, you will get a comprehensive snapshot of all that effort, with several pages of data and analysis of the results themselves, along with commentary from DiT representation, and a right of reply from Employers. Crucially, there are also some samples of the many comments provided by survey participants.
We are grateful for the participation of these DiTs, which forms the basis of Hospital Health Check and provides guidance for the newest doctors to the profession in assessing their potential workplaces. Crucial feedback will be provided in many meetings with Employers over the coming months, which we expect to result in improvement for the working conditions of all doctors in the State, especially our highly valued DiTs.
