House of Assembly: Wednesday, December 02, 2015

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Health Review

In reply to Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (24 July 2015). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries):

The Transforming Health Business Case contained the information, using health roundtable data, that there are on average 400 to 500 more deaths in South Australian hospitals, benchmarked against other participants in the health roundtable.

McKinsey developed the Transforming Health Business Case along with input from the Ministerial Clinical Advisory Committees during late 2014 and early 2015. I then released the 'Transforming Health Proposals Paper' for public consultation on 3 February 2015.

After Cabinet endorsement of the Transforming Health Business Case in early March, 2015, I released the 'Delivering Transforming Health – Our Next Steps' paper outlining initial decisions, a commitment to ongoing engagement, and timelines of the first changes to improve the healthcare system.

The business case overview containing the mortality figure and analysis is available and was uploaded on the website on 16 March, 2015 (see http://transforminghealth.sa.gov.au/).