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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Emergency Departments</name>
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          <heading>Emergency Departments</heading>
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        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-05-03" qonNum="436">
            <name>Emergency Departments</name>
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          <inserted>436 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (3 May 2021).  For each individual month over the past year, how many mental health patients have waited in emergency departments for longer than 24 hours for a bed (broken down in totals by month)?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <question date="2021-05-03" qonNum="436">
            <name>Emergency Departments</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>For each individual month over the past year the number of mental health patients waiting in emergency departments for longer than 24 hours for an appropriate bed are as follows:</inserted>
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                <cell>Month</cell>
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                <cell>Mar-20</cell>
                <cell>139</cell>
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                <cell>Apr-20</cell>
                <cell>78</cell>
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                <cell>145</cell>
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                <cell>Jun-20</cell>
                <cell>141</cell>
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                <cell>197</cell>
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                <cell>161</cell>
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                <cell>119</cell>
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                <cell>Oct-20</cell>
                <cell>102</cell>
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                <cell>Nov-20</cell>
                <cell>54</cell>
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                <cell>Dec-20</cell>
                <cell>53</cell>
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                <cell>Jan-21</cell>
                <cell>121</cell>
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                <cell>Feb-21</cell>
                <cell>136</cell>
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