❓ This parliamentary question seeks detailed workforce data (total FTE, funded FTE, and vacant positions) for each State Government area Health Service from 2022 to 2025. The answer provides total operating FTE but states that funded positions are flexible due to Activity Based Funding, making a direct comparison to fixed funded positions impossible.
AnsweredQoN 2109Legislative Assembly
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For each State Government area Health service, I ask:(a) What was the total workforce FTE at 30 June 2022, 30 June 2023, 30 June 2024, June 30 2025;(b) What was the total funded FTE positions at 30 June 2022, 30 June 2023, 30 June 2024, and June 30 2025; and(c) How many FTE funded positions were vacant as at 30 June 2022, 30 June 2023, 30 June 2024, 30 June 2025?
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Answered
9 June 2026
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
10 days
(a)
Health service
30 June 2022
30 June 2023
30 June 2024
30 June 2025
North Metropolitan Health Service
8,502
8,960
9,608
10,079
South Metropolitan Health Service
8,654
9,288
9,809
11,105
East Metropolitan Health Service
7,425
7,999
8,229
8,597
Child and Adolescent Health Service
4,520
4,615
4,859
5,142
WA Country Health Service
9,378
10,004
9,964
10,093
Total operating FTE
38,479
40,866
42,469
45,016
Note: this dataset includes clinical, non-clinical and support staff based on average FTE number across each financial year.
(b - c)
Health Service Providers are funded primarily through Activity Based Funding (ABF), which provides funding based on the volume and complexity of services delivered rather than on a defined and fixed structure of funded positions.
Workforce levels funded by the ABF are managed flexibly by Health Service Providers, in response to service demand, workforce availability, and operational requirements. As such, the number and type of funded positions are variable and there is not a specific funded structure to which actual FTE reported in response (a) can be taken to represent the funded positions and vacant funded positions.
Health service
30 June 2022
30 June 2023
30 June 2024
30 June 2025
North Metropolitan Health Service
8,502
8,960
9,608
10,079
South Metropolitan Health Service
8,654
9,288
9,809
11,105
East Metropolitan Health Service
7,425
7,999
8,229
8,597
Child and Adolescent Health Service
4,520
4,615
4,859
5,142
WA Country Health Service
9,378
10,004
9,964
10,093
Total operating FTE
38,479
40,866
42,469
45,016
Note: this dataset includes clinical, non-clinical and support staff based on average FTE number across each financial year.
(b - c)
Health Service Providers are funded primarily through Activity Based Funding (ABF), which provides funding based on the volume and complexity of services delivered rather than on a defined and fixed structure of funded positions.
Workforce levels funded by the ABF are managed flexibly by Health Service Providers, in response to service demand, workforce availability, and operational requirements. As such, the number and type of funded positions are variable and there is not a specific funded structure to which actual FTE reported in response (a) can be taken to represent the funded positions and vacant funded positions.
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