Hospital Supplies

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (14:27): Supplementary, Mr Speaker: can the minister guarantee that all South Australians who are presenting to our emergency departments will be offered basics, like pillows?

The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:27): What we have done is undertaken the audit to make sure—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Ms Pratt interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Frome is warned. Order!

The Hon. C.J. PICTON: —that we have absolutely the right numbers of pillows that we need. I have given the instructions to the leaders of our health networks and our hospital management: (a) to make sure that they are buying additional pillows that they need; and (b) to make sure that those pillows are available to all patients who need them. I know that our doctors, nurses and allied health staff work their guts out to provide patient care and seek to make sure that we can provide the right care for all patients at all times. Of course, sometimes things do happen. We need to learn from those events and make sure that we can improve care for other patients in the future, and that is exactly what is happening.