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  <date date="2021-11-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Hospital Beds</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="2021-10-14" qonNum="835">
            <name>Hospital Beds</name>
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          <inserted>835 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (14 October 2021).  On average, in 2020-21, how many hospital medical beds have been unoccupied in the midnight census for the following hospitals: RAH, QEH, FMC and Modbury?</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="2021-10-14" qonNum="835">
            <name>Hospital Beds</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 2020-21 financial year, on average, the following number of hospital medical beds were unoccupied in a midnight census:</inserted>
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                <cell>Financial Year</cell>
                <cell>Average Unoccupied Beds</cell>
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                <cell>RAH</cell>
                <cell>26.66</cell>
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                <cell>QEH</cell>
                <cell>3.13</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>FMC</cell>
                <cell>33.80</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>MPH</cell>
                <cell>3.35</cell>
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