Enterprise Patient Administration System

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:30): My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister confirm that EPAS would have been ready to be deployed at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital at the original technical completion date of 4 April 2016—seven months ago—given that the Auditor-General's Report tabled yesterday contains a catalogue of issues yet to be resolved?

The Hon. T.R. Kenyon interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Newland is warned for the second and final time.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:30): Yes, it would have. My advice is that if the hospital were ready today, EPAS would be ready to roll out. The reason why we have taken the decision not to roll out, not to have full functionality of EPAS upon the first day of opening the hospital, is simply to manage—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: The member for Morphett is actually interested in this answer, I can tell. It's a pity that his colleagues don't show the same decency and politeness—

Mr Goldsworthy interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Kavel is called to order.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —that the member for Morphett shows. The simple answer to the question is, yes, it would have been ready, and it would be ready—

Mr van Holst Pellekaan interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Stuart is called to order.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —were the hospital ready today. We would be ready to roll EPAS out. The reason why we are not rolling out full functionality is not because that functionality is not available, but simply because we need to enable the clinicians to manage all the change that they have to do with the new hospital, and we want to try to keep that as limited as possible. At this stage, when we open the new hospital, EPAS will be rolled out in its entirety, but we won't switch on every component of it to enable the clinicians to manage all the change they have to do at one time.