Hospital Management Investigation

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:30): My question is to the Minister for Health. How many breaches of the privacy of patient records that occurred in the three months to the end of May this year have been reported, and how many have been investigated? Can the minister now provide the parliament with any further information regarding the audit mechanisms in place to identify breaches of patient records?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:31): As I have said, we will report every three months on these breaches where they are confirmed to have happened. We released those figures last week as part of our commitment to do that. Obviously, we will only report it where it has been confirmed to have happened. In both those—I am not going to add any more to that.