Health Review

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:16): What is the projected budget impact of the Transforming Health proposals over the next three years?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:16): We are investing $250 million is the answer to that, capital expenditure of roughly $250 million—building a new rehab unit at the Flinders Medical Centre; building new rehab units at Modbury and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, with gyms and with swimming pools at those locations where currently they don't have them; a redeveloped NICU at the Flinders Medical Centre; and an improvement to the Noarlunga emergency department, with the creation of a separate paediatric area, something that they have been calling for, something that the nurses and doctors who work at Noarlunga when I met with them said was urgently needed. So, yes, there is a budget impact: we are investing more in our health system.