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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>Health Review</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:13):</by>  Is the minister suggesting that he doesn't have a workforce reduction number that the government is working towards?</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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            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <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) (14:13):</by>  No, we don't because, as I have said before, what we do in terms of the acute bed numbers is very much a work in progress and will depend upon our ability to shift resources away from acute hospital beds, where we are too heavy on, and into subacute beds and investments in the components of our health workforce who get people out of hospital and back home.</text>
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