Post-Natal Depression Services

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:39): Supplementary to the Minister for Mental Health: has the minister discussed this advice with the Chief Psychiatrist or the Mental Health Commissioner?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:39): The Helen Mayo clinic, if my memory serves me correctly, comes under the government's Women's and Children's Health Network. I will double-check that, but I am almost certain that that is the case. This is from discussions with clinicians in the Women's and Children's Health Network that this is the best place to have those women.

There are considerable advantages to having the facilities of that hospital there, available to those women. I haven't heard anyone claiming otherwise. If there are people out there who think there is some reason why women are better off in a separate facility at Glenside, I would be very open to hearing what their concerns are but, as far as I am concerned, the specialists' advice is that having the facility incorporated within the new women's hospital will provide the best outcome for those women.