Admissions

Priority of admission will be given to patients with the greatest medical needs. Patients will only be admitted under the care of doctors with admitting rights to Fremantle Hospital.

Admission priorities criteria

Factors considered in determining the priorities for admission include:

• medical needs
• other patients also requiring admission in the immediate future
• staffing levels
• availability of beds and other resources.

Admission will be determined on the following priority basis:

Urgent elective admission

The designated heads of individual departments will be responsible for ensuring the allocation of priorities for urgent elective admissions within that department’s allocated beds.

Non-urgent elective admission

Non-urgent elective patients will be admitted to the appropriate unit in chronological order of being placed on the waiting list.

Single rooms

Single rooms will be allocated to patients on the basis of medical or nursing requirements, including:

• isolation of infectious patients
• flexibility of ward management in the admission of patients of different genders.