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Mental Health Patients
705 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (3 April 2019). Noting that the emergency department dashboard only provides real-time and not collated/historical data, how many mental health patients waited more than 24 hours for a bed in a public hospital in each month between March 2018 and February 2019?
The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining): The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:
The following numbers of patients waited for more than 24 hours in an emergency department in public hospitals between March 2018 and February 2019:
| Month | Number of Patients |
| March 2018 | 100 |
| April 2018 | 97 |
| May 2018 | 89 |
| June 2018 | 159 |
| July 2018 | 125 |
| August 2018 | 146 |
| September 2018 | 150 |
| October 2018 | 124 |
| November 2018 | 167 |
| December 2018 | 151 |
| January 2019 | 166 |
| February 2019 | 146 |