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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Outpatient Appointments</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Outpatient Appointments</heading>
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      <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="2021-05-03" qonNum="434">
            <name>Outpatient Appointments</name>
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          <inserted>434 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (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):</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Royal Adelaide Hospital?</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001019">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;The Queen Elizabeth Hospital?</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001020">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Lyell McEwen Hospital?</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001021">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;Flinders Medical Centre?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;Memorial Hospital?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;Women and Children's Hospital?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;Noarlunga Hospital?</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="434">
            <name>Outpatient Appointments</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>As parliament was advised on 13 February 2019, public hospitals performed almost two million outpatient occasions of service in 2017-18.</inserted>
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          <inserted>As at 30 September 2020, the amount of people on waiting lists across all outpatient specialties were:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;12,734 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;12,016 at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001030">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;20,011 at the Lyell McEwin Hospital</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001031">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;15,898 at the Flinders Medical Centre</inserted>
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        <text id="202105060bf65287f4854bf0b0001032">
          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;The Memorial Hospital is a private hospital.</inserted>
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          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;8,323 at the Women's and Children's Hospital; and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;4,300 at Noarlunga Hospital.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Note that only some of these patients are overdue and reflect the total lists across all specialties.</inserted>
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