Health Review

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:35): My question is to the Minister for Health. How are the minister's comments in estimates that the service moves under Transforming Health were yet to be determined consistent with Professor Dorothy Keefe's comments on a video blog on Sunday night that 'the other things that have happened in Transforming Health in the last few weeks are the signing off on the master schedule and the top-down planning for all of the reconfigurations and moves that need to occur'?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:35): It is quite simple really. The top-down process or top-down planning that is happening is the overall helicopter view of the planning, the big decisions, macro decisions we have to make—things like the future of the Repat Hospital and where the big services there go.

Underpinning all of that is a whole lot of microplanning that has to go on: individual small services have to move; we have to determine how many beds are required in all of these small services. That is the planning which is ongoing at the moment, but the macro moves that we have to make across the system, that is part of the process which is substantially complete, but there is still a lot of work that has to happen.