The state government will pledge almost $53m over four years to fund dozens of new positions
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The goal was to enable every local health district to provide 24/7 crisis coverage for adult and child victims of sexual assault, with the ability to provide specialist medical and forensic response within two hours. That would represent a better experience than many women face now, according to sexual assault nurse examiner Catherine McGowan.
“We’ve had instances where people who have been assaulted have had to wait all day and see someone who’s on call after hours. That’s just not OK,” she said.“It’s more traumatising but, also … you can lose evidence the longer you wait,” McGowan said.The money will fund 36 full-time equivalent sexual assault nurse examiners, five full-time equivalent sexual assault and domestic violence-trained medical officers and seven full-time equivalent paediatric child protection leads.
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