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  <date date="2023-06-14T10:30:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <heading>Auditor-General's Report</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mrs HURN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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          <question date="2023-06-14T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c">Mrs HURN (Schubert)</by> (2 November 2022).  </inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2023-06-14T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>CALHN is currently conducting a catch-up program to ensure all CALHN staff are compliant. This program will continue into 2023.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Following a further audit in late 2022, CALHN found 8,449 staff members with either an outstanding diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (dTpa) vaccination or incomplete vaccinations records, with a further 8,047 staff members compliant with the dTpa vaccinations and records kept. The Office of the Auditor-General's audit took place in August 2022.</inserted>
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          <inserted>CALHN is an adult-only service, so there is no exposure to neonates, who are at greatest risk of infection from pertussis. tetanus and diphtheria are not person to person transmissible infections in a healthcare setting.</inserted>
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