House of Assembly: Thursday, May 18, 2017

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Oakden Mental Health Facility

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (15:06): My question is to the Minister for Mental Health. Can the minister confirm to the house whether she discussed the closure of Oakden with anyone between the time she received the Chief Psychiatrist's review and the time she actually read it, more than five days later?

The Hon. L.A. VLAHOS (Taylor—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (15:06): We know that when we received the Oakden report from the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist, SA Health was in the process of creating recommendations that were taken to cabinet. We fully released the recommendations and adopted all the recommendations, six in full, and the report on, I believe, 20 April, if I am correct from my memory. We have continued to move forward based on those six recommendations since that time.