House of Assembly: Thursday, May 06, 2021

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Outpatient Appointments

434 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (3 May 2021). As at 30 September 2020 how many people were on waiting lists for an outpatient appointment at each of the following hospitals (in total, across all specialities):

(a) Royal Adelaide Hospital?

(b) The Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

(c) Lyell McEwen Hospital?

(d) Flinders Medical Centre?

(e) Memorial Hospital?

(f) Women and Children's Hospital?

(g) Noarlunga Hospital?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I have been advised:

As parliament was advised on 13 February 2019, public hospitals performed almost two million outpatient occasions of service in 2017-18.

As at 30 September 2020, the amount of people on waiting lists across all outpatient specialties were:

(a) 12,734 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

(b) 12,016 at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

(c) 20,011 at the Lyell McEwin Hospital

(d) 15,898 at the Flinders Medical Centre

(e) The Memorial Hospital is a private hospital.

(f) 8,323 at the Women's and Children's Hospital; and

(g) 4,300 at Noarlunga Hospital.

Note that only some of these patients are overdue and reflect the total lists across all specialties.