Ms ROSOL – Just going back to the issues in HR that are happening at the moment, I’m just wondering how many vacant positions there are within HR across the Department of Health, and then how many positions across the department that are waiting for processing by HR ‑ so they’ve been interviewed, selected, but not processed yet.
Mrs ARCHER – How many positions or how many HR positions?
Ms ROSOL – How many HR vacant positions there are, and of those that have been interviewed, how many are waiting for processing?
Mrs ARCHER – Do you have that information available? No, I will have to take that one on notice, if that’s alright, Ms Rosol.
Ms ROSOL – Great, thank you. I will go to ambulance responses now. When someone calls 000 for an ambulance, the emergency call takers triage the call and they assign it a priority level. Priority 0 and priority 1 calls are emergencies that are life‑threatening incidents that require a lights‑and‑sirens response.
When a call is graded as a P0 or P1, it’s supposed to be assigned an ambulance within three minutes. Can you tell us how many times ambulances were not assigned to P0 and P1 emergency calls within three minutes in both 2023‑24 and 2024‑25?
Mrs ARCHER – We will have to take that one on notice as well, Ms Rosol.
