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  <date date="2021-06-10" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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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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      <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="2021-05-13" qonNum="499">
            <name>Emergency Departments</name>
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          <inserted>499 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (13 May 2021).  How many presentations were recorded at SA metro emergency departments for each month of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 (YTD)?</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <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="2021-05-13" qonNum="499">
            <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>During the period 1 January 2019 to 30 April 2021, the following number of presentations were recorded at SA metropolitan public hospital emergency departments:</inserted>
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                <cell colspan="4">SA Metropolitan Public Hospital ED Presentations</cell>
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                <cell>Month</cell>
                <cell>2019</cell>
                <cell>2020</cell>
                <cell>2021</cell>
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                <cell>January</cell>
                <cell>             35,915</cell>
                <cell>             35,994</cell>
                <cell>             37,374</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>February</cell>
                <cell>             33,466</cell>
                <cell>             34,568</cell>
                <cell>             34,519</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>March</cell>
                <cell>             37,677</cell>
                <cell>             32,833</cell>
                <cell>             37,398</cell>
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                <cell>April</cell>
                <cell>             36,512</cell>
                <cell>             26,450</cell>
                <cell>             35,402</cell>
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                <cell>May</cell>
                <cell>37,104</cell>
                <cell>31,254</cell>
                <cell />
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              <row>
                <cell>June</cell>
                <cell>35,877</cell>
                <cell>32,377</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>July</cell>
                <cell>35,554</cell>
                <cell>34,372</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>August</cell>
                <cell>35,675</cell>
                <cell>35,882</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>September</cell>
                <cell>35,093</cell>
                <cell>34,924</cell>
                <cell />
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              <row>
                <cell>October</cell>
                <cell>36,273</cell>
                <cell>37,163</cell>
                <cell />
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              <row>
                <cell>November</cell>
                <cell>35,171</cell>
                <cell>35,443</cell>
                <cell />
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                <cell>December</cell>
                <cell>36,574</cell>
                <cell>36,161</cell>
                <cell />
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                <cell>Grand Total</cell>
                <cell>430,891</cell>
                <cell>407,421</cell>
                <cell>144,693</cell>
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