Ministerial Statement

ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL, MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:30): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement.

Leave granted.

The Hon. J.D. HILL: Today in question time, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition asked me a question about mental health patients attending emergency at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and being referred to a non-existent ward called P3AD. I am advised that, when a mental patient is brought into the emergency department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, they are coded as such and the code number for their circumstances is that number, P3AD. When they are actually transferred to a ward, they are given a different code number. This is a code that relates to them and not to any mythical ward.