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  <name>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</name>
  <date date="2010-10-15T00:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)</sessionName>
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  <house>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</house>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Bulk Billing</name>
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        <heading>BULK BILLING</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2010-10-15">
            <name>BULK BILLING</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="20101015af0fa6b6c19a412780000142">In reply to <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett)</by> (11 October 2010).</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Southern Suburbs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2010-10-15">
            <name>BULK BILLING</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="20101015af0fa6b6c19a412780000143">
          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts):  </by>I have been advised that:</text>
        <text id="20101015af0fa6b6c19a412780000144">Data on bulk billing practices of specialists are not kept, but that the majority of specialists take the financial circumstances of patients into account when determining individual patient charges. Patients are entitled to seek advice on charges prior to consultation.</text>
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