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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Ambulance Service Chief Executive Officer</name>
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        <heading>SA Ambulance Service Chief Executive Officer</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" kind="question">
        <name>Ms PRATT</name>
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        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-11-14T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>SA Ambulance Service Chief Executive Officer</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9">Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:31):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Did the CEO of SA Ambulance Service seek a six-month extension on current accreditation under the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and, if so, can the minister explain why that was granted? Mr Speaker, with your leave and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="2024111431600a531203497aa0000461">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>Ms PRATT</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9">Ms PRATT:</by>  In a September newsletter, CEO Rob Elliott stated, and I quote:</text>
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          <inserted>To ensure we are better prepared for the third accreditation we have sought an extension from SA Health of our current accreditation for approximately six months.</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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          <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:32):</by>  I think the member's explanation of the question actually answered her own question as to the reason why the CEO of SA Ambulance sought that extension.</text>
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