House of Assembly: Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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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