Enterprise Patient Administration System

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:27): Supplementary, sir: how has the minister responded to the claims made by senior clinicians at the Repat that the rollout of the EPAS system was 'a direct risk to patients' safety' and that they did not endorse its use?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:28): I will need to see what those comments are, but we do have procedures in place whereby clinicians, if they have concerns about EPAS, can engage with the people who are running the project to make sure that any issues that clinicians have are appropriately dealt with, but I certainly reject any claim that at any time patient safety is compromised.