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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Repatriation General Hospital</name>
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        <heading>REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2010-06-01" qonNum="51">
            <name>REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL</name>
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        <text id="20110607ac3f59e471454b0f80000460">51 <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett)</by> (1 June 2010).  Will funding allocated to the food and catering services at the Repatriation General Hospital also incorporate the development and implementation of nutritional standards and menu guidelines for public hospitals in South Australia?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Southern Suburbs</name>
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            <name>Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts</name>
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          <question date="2010-06-01" qonNum="51">
            <name>REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL</name>
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          <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 am advised:</text>
        <text id="20110607ac3f59e471454b0f80000462">The Repatriation General Hospital (RGH) patient menus are based on Industry standards 'Towards the Development of Best Practice Patient Food Services', 1996, Nutrition Unit, Department of Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia.</text>
        <text id="20110607ac3f59e471454b0f80000463">The RGH menu aligns to 2009 draft standards: 'Menu and nutritional standards for adult inpatients in South Australian acute care hospitals'.</text>
        <text id="20110607ac3f59e471454b0f80000464">The RGH currently provides from within its operational budget a nutritional menu for inpatients that is consistent with industry standards.</text>
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