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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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          <heading>Elective Surgery</heading>
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        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-02-13" qonNum="617">
            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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          <inserted>617 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (13 February 2018).  Given that there is no historical information available on the SA Health Dashboard website, what was the number of people waiting for an elective surgery operation in SA public hospitals on:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;1 March 2018?</inserted>
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        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001768">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;1 April 2018?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001769">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;1 May 2018?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001770">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;1 June 2018?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;1 July 2018?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;1 August 2018?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;1 September 2018?</inserted>
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        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001774">
          <inserted>(h)&amp;#x9;1 October 2018?</inserted>
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        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001775">
          <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;1 November 2018?</inserted>
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        <text id="201902137abfd71dae7e4fe3b0001776">
          <inserted>(j)&amp;#x9;1 December 2018?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Energy and Mining</name>
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          <question date="2018-02-13" qonNum="617">
            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:</inserted>
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              <rowtitle>
                <cell colspan="2">Number of People waiting for an Elective Surgery Operation (OnList) in SA Public Hospitals</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Mar-18</cell>
                <cell>16,764</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Apr-18</cell>
                <cell>16,963</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>May-18</cell>
                <cell>16,901</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Jun-18</cell>
                <cell>16,544</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Jul-18</cell>
                <cell>16,497</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Aug-18</cell>
                <cell>16,740</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Sep-18</cell>
                <cell>16,890</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Oct-18</cell>
                <cell>16,913</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Nov-18</cell>
                <cell>17,272</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Dec-18</cell>
                <cell>17,737</cell>
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