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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-11-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Chemotherapy</name>
      <text id="202111304f395769efd04cdda0001337">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Chemotherapy</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-10-14" qonNum="827">
            <name>Chemotherapy</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="202111304f395769efd04cdda0001338">
          <inserted>827 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (14 October 2021).  How many chemotherapy treatment spaces are there in the public health system, broken down by each individual site, and how many occasions of service were delivered at each site last financial year?</inserted>
        </text>
      </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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-10-14" qonNum="827">
            <name>Chemotherapy</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202111304f395769efd04cdda0001339">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="202111304f395769efd04cdda0001340">
          <inserted>During the 2020-21 financial year, a total of 47,997 occasions of service were delivered where the primary reason for attendance was to administer chemotherapy, through 143 chemotherapy treatment spaces across the seven metropolitan public hospitals and ten large regional public hospitals.</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>
            <table>
              <rowtitle>
                <cell>Hospital</cell>
                <cell>Number of Chemotherapy Treatment Spaces</cell>
                <cell>Occasions of Service Delivered in 2020-21</cell>
              </rowtitle>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Central Adelaide Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Royal Adelaide Hospital</cell>
                <cell>34</cell>
                <cell>15,930</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Queen Elizabeth Hospital</cell>
                <cell>13</cell>
                <cell>4,284</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Northern Adelaide Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Lyell McEwin Hospital</cell>
                <cell>12</cell>
                <cell>8,889</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Modbury Hospital</cell>
                <cell>0</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Southern Adelaide Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Flinders Medical Centre</cell>
                <cell>19</cell>
                <cell>10,034</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Noarlunga Health Service</cell>
                <cell>0</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Women’s and Children’s Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Women’s and Children’s Hospital</cell>
                <cell>18</cell>
                <cell>1,664</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Gawler Health Service</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
                <cell>111</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital</cell>
                <cell>3</cell>
                <cell>176</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Southern Fleurieu Health Service</cell>
                <cell>5</cell>
                <cell>778</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Eyre and Far North Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Port Lincoln Hospital and Health Service</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
                <cell>403</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Port Augusta Hospital</cell>
                <cell>6</cell>
                <cell>309</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Whyalla Hospital</cell>
                <cell>6</cell>
                <cell>1,854</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Limestone Coast Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service</cell>
                <cell>6</cell>
                <cell>1,921</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Murray Bridge Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
                <cell>212</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Riverland General Hospital</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
                <cell>550</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell colspan="3">Yorke and Northern Local Health Network</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Port Pirie Regional Health Service</cell>
                <cell>5</cell>
                <cell>882</cell>
              </row>
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        <text id="202111304f395769efd04cdda0001343">
          <inserted>A further 277 occasions of service were delivered in 2020-21 where the primary reason for attendance was to administer chemotherapy, across eight smaller regional public hospitals.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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