Hospital Beds

696 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (3 April 2019). On 19 March 2018 how many patients eligible for the NDIS were in beds in public hospitals? How many of those had been in hospital for over 100 days and over 200 days?

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

The closest date to the 19 March 2018 that data was captured was 30 March 2018. As of that date SA Health was monitoring 17 patients who were eligible for NDIS services and waiting for the NDIS process to be completed. Of these, 9 patients were discharge ready of whom 5 patients were in hospital for over 100 days and 1 was in hospital for over 200 days mental health patients were not included.