House of Assembly: Tuesday, November 27, 2018

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Mental Health Services

In reply to Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (25 September 2018). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing): I have been advised:

The number of mental health patients that have waited more than 24 hours for a bed in metropolitan public hospitals, as well as country hospitals, in the last six months is:

March 2018 100
April 2018 97
May 2018 89
June 2018 157 (plus 2 from country)
July 2018 126
August 2018 145 (plus 1 from country)
Total 6 months 714 (plus 3 from country)


Average waiting times for mental health patients in emergency departments across all metropolitan emergency departments from January 2017 to August 2018 have been:

January 2017 8.5 hours
February 2017 9.1 hours
March 2017 8.7 hours
April 2017 8.6 hours
May 2017 7.6 hours
June 2017 8.4 hours
July 2017 8.4 hours
August 2017 7.9 hours
September 2017 8.4 hours
October 2017 8.3 hours
November 2017 10.0 hours
December 2017 8.8 hours
January 2018 10.4 hours
February 2018 10.9 hours
March 2018 10.2 hours
April 2018 10.7 hours
May 2018 8.8 hours
June 2018 12.3 hours
July 2018 10.8 hours
August 2018 11.8 hours


Percentage increase between January 2017 and August 2018 is 38.8 percent.