Hospital Beds

621 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (13 February 2018). Given that there is no historical information available on the SA Health Dashboard website, what was the average number of available overnight beds in Adelaide metro public hospitals during:

(a) April 2018?

(b) May 2018?

(c) June 2018?

(d) July 2018?

(e) August 2018?

(f) September 2018?

(g) October 2018?

(h) November 2018?

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining): The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:

Overnight inpatient bed numbers for demand management, as used for the SA Health Dashboard, fluctuate by seasonal change, system redesign and service reconfiguration. The most reliable method for understanding bed utilisation is to examine the number of beds occupied by a patient at a census time point. This is referred to as a midnight census of occupied beds.