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      <name>Health Review</name>
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        <heading>Health Review</heading>
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        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Health Review</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:05):</by>  My question is again to the Minister for Health. Given that the downgraded emergency departments will be diverting life-threatening emergencies, what range of conditions will be considered life threatening?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
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          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>Health Review</name>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:06):</by>  Life threatening is pretty self-evident: it doesn't require a clinical definition. But, of course, something where someone is in danger of dying and where it is not appropriate to take them to the closest emergency department and they are going to be able to get better care by being looked after in an emergency department that has the appropriate diagnostic services—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  —with senior clinicians on site 24 hours a day. It's not rocket science.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2015031855d7f5f7fb564572a0000253">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Before the leader asks another question, would he be seated. I call to order the leader, the deputy leader, the member for Unley, the member for Hartley, the member for Mount Gambier and the member for Heysen. Leader.</text>
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