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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Page: 11761

Health and Ageing: Programs

(Question No. 553)


Mr Dutton asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 25 August 2011:

For each program administered by her department, (a) what are the staffing numbers, by location, and (b) how many regulations are associated with each program.


Ms Roxon: The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

The staffing numbers by location and each program of the Department of Health and Ageing (The Department) for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 are provided in Table 1 below. The associated programs are consistent with those programs reported in the Portfolio Budget Statements. As the Department's Financial and Human Resources Management Information System is not configured to separately identify staffing numbers by individual programs the diversion of resources necessary to extract the details from the individual program areas cannot be justified.

Table 1. Staffing numbers (FTE) (i) in each division

Department of Health and Ageing Division

Location

Attributable Program group

NSW

VIC

QLD

WA

SA

Tas

NT

ACT

Ageing and Aged Care

(Includes the Office of Aged care Quality & Compliance)

136

190

36

50

54

23

16

549

Prog 4.1: Aged care Assessment

Prog 4.2 Aged care Workforce

Prog 4.3: Ageing Information & Support

Prog 4.4: Community Care

Prog 4.5: Culturally Appropriate Aged Care

Prog 4.6: Dementia

Prog 4.7: Flexible Aged care

Prog 4.8: Residential Care

Prog 10.5 Palliative Care & Community Assistance

Acute Care

(Includes Health Reform transition activities)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

195

Prog 3.1: Medicare Services

Prog 13.2: Medical Indemnity

Prog 13.3: Public Hospitals and Information

E Health

56

Prog 10.2: e Health Implementation

Health Workforce

1

2

2

1

1

0

1

123

Prog 12.1: Rural Workforce

Prog 12.2: Workforce

Medical Benefits

 

 

 

271

Prog 3.1: Medicare Services

Prog 3.2: Alternative Funding for Health Service Provision

Prog 3.3: Diagnostic Imaging services

Prog 3.4: Pathology Services

Prog 3.5: Chronic Disease—Radiation Oncology

Prog 3.6: Targeted Assistance—Medical

Prog 9.1: Private Health Insurance

Mental Health & Chronic Disease

5

5

3

4

-

-

-

230

Prog 1.1: Chronic Disease—Early Detection & Prevention

Prog 1.3: Drug Strategy

Prog 8.1: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

Prog 10.1:Chronic Disease Treatment

Prog 11.1: Mental Health

Office of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

23

12

30

26

14

3

25

219

Prog 8.1: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health

Office of Health Protection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

191

Prog 1.2: Communicable Disease Control

Prog 1.5: Immunisation

Prog 14.1: Health Emergency Planning & Response

Prog 14.2: Surveillance

Pharmaceutical Benefits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

223

Prog 2.1: Community Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Awareness

Prog 2.2: Pharmaceuticals & Pharmaceutical Services

Prog 2.3: Targeted Assistance—Pharmaceuticals

Prog 2.4: Targeted Assistance—Aids and Appliances

Population Health

3

0

0

0

1

2

-

123

Prog 1.6: Public Health

Primary and Ambulatory Care

18

16

12

16

11

6

0

224

Prog 5.1: Primary Care Education & Training

Prog 5.2 : Primary Care Financing, Quality & Access

Prog 5.3: Primary Care Policy, Innovation & Research

Prog 5.4: Primary Care Incentives

Prog 6.1: Rural Health Services

Prog 12.1: Rural Workforce

Portfolio Strategies (ii)

 

157

Prog 10.3: Health Information

Prog 10.4: International Policy Engagement

Prog 10.6: Research Capacity

Prog 10.7 Health Infrastructure

Regulatory Policy and Governance (iii)

 

 

130

Prog 1.4: Food & Regulatory Policy

Prog 7.1: Hearing Services

Prog 10.6: Research Capacity

Prog 13.1: Blood & Organ Donation Services

Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

Portfolio Strategies Division is also engaged in activities which are considered to be across the portfolio and not directly attributable to a particular program.

Regulatory Policy and Governance is also engaged in activities which are considered to be across the portfolio and not directly attributable to a particular program.

The Department administers 63 Acts and approximately 500 legislative instruments. Identifying what legislation and instruments are associated with each of the Department's programs is not practicable.