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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-06-19" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
      <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001235">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Influenza Vaccinations</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-06-04" qonNum="830">
            <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
          </question>
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          <inserted>830 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (4 June 2019).  As at Friday 26 April 2019, how many staff had been vaccinated at each of the following:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001237">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Royal Adelaide Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001238">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;Lyell McEwin Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001239">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Flinders Medical Centre?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001240">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Modbury Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001241">
          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;The Queen Elizabeth Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001242">
          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;Noarlunga Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001243">
          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;Women's and Children's Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001244">
          <inserted>(h)&amp;#x9;Mount Barker Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001245">
          <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;Whyalla Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001246">
          <inserted>(j)&amp;#x9;Riverland Regional Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001247">
          <inserted>(k)&amp;#x9;Mount Gambier Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001248">
          <inserted>(l)&amp;#x9;Port Lincoln Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001249">
          <inserted>(m)&amp;#x9;Gawler Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001250">
          <inserted>(n)&amp;#x9;Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001251">
          <inserted>(o)&amp;#x9;South Australian Ambulance Service?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Energy and Mining</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-06-04" qonNum="830">
            <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201906194820bd2df054489380001252">
          <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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          <inserted>For the first four weeks of the program in 2018 and 2019, SA Health distributed 25,203 influenza vaccine doses for SA Health care workers (HCW) in 2018, compared with 30,670 in 2019. This was also in the context of three public holidays (Good Friday, Easter Monday and ANZAC Day) during this period in 2019.</inserted>
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              <rowtitle>
                <cell colspan="3">SA Health HCW Doses Distributed</cell>
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                <cell />
                <cell>No. of doses distributed in first 4 weeks of program in 2018</cell>
                <cell>No. of doses distributed in first 4 weeks of program in 2019</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Total HCW</cell>
                <cell>21,710</cell>
                <cell>25,010</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Total National Immunisation Program (NIP)</cell>
                <cell>3,493</cell>
                <cell>5,660</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>TOTAL </cell>
                <cell>25,203</cell>
                <cell>30,670</cell>
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          </inserted>
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          <inserted>Note: The 'Total NIP' figure relates to NIP stock distributed for health care workers over 65 years of age and so eligible for the commonwealth funded vaccine specifically for ≥ 65 year olds.</inserted>
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