Enterprise Patient Administration System

Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (14:52): My question is to the Minister for Health. Given that the budget papers indicate that the government is moving to implement EPAS at Mount Gambier, can the minister advise whether cabinet has decided to roll out EPAS to the rest of country South Australia and what the cost of that rollout will be?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:52): No, the reason why we have done this with Mount Gambier is because of the review that was done on the problems at the Mount Gambier emergency department and the recommendations of that review that we move to electronic patient health records, particularly because of the issues that were being faced at the Mount Gambier hospital. We have only extended the scope by that one hospital at this stage but, of course, once we have successfully rolled EPAS out to the current scope, so basically the rest of our metropolitan hospitals, then we certainly would be looking at rolling EPAS out to our country hospitals as well.