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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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        <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="878">
            <name>Port Pirie Health Service</name>
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          <inserted>878 <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 at the Port Pirie Regional Health Services accident and emergency department, how many times were locum doctors unavailable to fill all shifts in a 24-hour period?</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="878">
            <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>For the period 1 January 2021 to 30 September 2021 at least one shift within each 24-hour period was covered by a locum general practitioner.</inserted>
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