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  <name>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</name>
  <date date="2009-07-03T00:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>51</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>3</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</house>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Services, Waiting Lists</name>
      <text id="20090703bf3c440b22294fd790000226">
        <heading>DISABILITY SERVICES, WAITING LISTS</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2009-07-03">
            <name>DISABILITY SERVICES, WAITING LISTS</name>
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        <text id="20090703bf3c440b22294fd790000227">In reply to <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)</by> (29 June 2009).</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="614" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M. RANKINE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Families and Communities</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Northern Suburbs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Housing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Disability</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2009-07-03">
            <name>DISABILITY SERVICES, WAITING LISTS</name>
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        <text id="20090703bf3c440b22294fd790000228">
          <by role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Families and Communities, Minister for Northern Suburbs, Minister for Housing, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Disability):</by>  As at 30 June 2008 there were 315 adults waiting for equipment. The average waiting time for the provision of equipment once the clinical assessment and prescription was completed was 175 days. As at 30 June 2009 there were 8 adults waiting for equipment. The average waiting time for the provision of equipment once the clinical assessment and prescription was completed has reduced by 149 days to 26 days.</text>
        <text id="20090703bf3c440b22294fd790000229">As at 30 June 2008, there were 390 children waiting for equipment from Novita Children's Services with a waiting time average of approximately 252 days. As at 30 June 2009, there were 393 children waiting for equipment from Novita Children's Services, with an average client wait time of 252 days.</text>
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