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  <date date="2021-12-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Port Pirie Health Service</name>
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          <heading>Port Pirie Health Service</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3533" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. G.G. BROCK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-10-28" qonNum="877">
            <name>Port Pirie Health Service</name>
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          <inserted>877 <by role="member" id="3533">The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome)</by> (28 October 2021).  For the period of 1 January to 30 September 2021 in the Port Pirie Regional Health Service:</inserted>
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        <text id="20211201a0c2a81c66b34f0780001471">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;How many shifts occurred where there was not the required number of nursing staff to meet necessary staffing levels?</inserted>
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        <text id="20211201a0c2a81c66b34f0780001472">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;On how many occasions was there requirement for nursing staff to carry out a 'double shift' to ensure that there was a full complement of nursing staff?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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          <question date="2021-10-28" qonNum="877">
            <name>Port Pirie Health Service</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Port Pirie Regional Health Service (PPRHS) monitors staffing levels as per the Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement 2020. Staffing levels are required to be monitored as an average over a 14-day period. It is not possible to breakdown data into individual shifts. </inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;There were 53 occasions where staff worked 'double shifts' for the period 1 January 2021 to 30 September 2021, to cover unplanned leave.</inserted>
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