Modbury Hospital

Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (14:49): A further supplementary: can the minister confirm that this is the same NALHN that also prepared the briefing letter on Oakden that the Premier described as inaccurate?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:50): I have to say it's a pretty extraordinary thing for the opposition to come in here and start attacking doctors and nurses and suggesting that somehow doctors and nurses in the Modbury Hospital emergency department have engaged in some sort of cooking of the books to make statistics look better. I have explained to the house that this glitch had no effect on the statistics regarding length of stay in the Modbury Hospital emergency department. I do trust our doctors and nurses in our hospitals. If the opposition don't, then that's a matter for them.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader will withdraw for the next hour under the sessional order for repeatedly defying the standing orders.

The honourable member for Dunstan having withdrawn from the chamber: