Hospital Beds

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): Can the minister perhaps explain to the house how many hospital beds there are in metropolitan Adelaide at the moment and compare that with what the situation was 12 months ago?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:25): Again, this is probably a question more suited to estimates, but there is no doubt that South Australia has more mental health beds per head of population than any other state, we also have more mental health clinicians per head of population than any other state and we spend more in mental health per head of population than any other state.