Repatriation General Hospital

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (15:08): My question is to the Minister for Health. Does the minister accept that if the government proceeds with its plan to close the Repat Hospital, this will mean that Ward 17 will need to be co-located with an acute hospital elsewhere? The expert advisory panel for the new Centre for Excellence for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has decided, as reported in its 27 May newsletter, that the new model of care for PTSD must include an inpatient component.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:08): I am yet to receive formal advice from that committee, but certainly it would be very difficult (if the acute model is the model that they go for) for it to continue at Daw Park. But I am waiting for advice from them, and I imagine that that advice will be coming to me shortly.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary, member for Davenport.