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Emergency Departments

1049 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (23 July 2019). Noting that the emergency department dashboard only provides real-time and not collated/historical data, how many patients waited more than 24 hours for a bed in a public hospital emergency department in each month as per below:

(a) January 2019?

(b) February 2019?

(c) March 2019?

(d) April 2019?

(e) May 2019?

(f) June 2019?

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

Data on emergency department performance is published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and reported in real time on the SA Health Emergency Department Dashboard.