House of Assembly Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1) 55 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time SA Health Doctors' Wellbeing Report SA Health Doctors' Wellbeing Report Mrs HURN House of Assembly Schubert SA Health Doctors' Wellbeing Report Mrs HURN (Schubert) (14:12): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Has the minister read the draft SA Health doctors' wellbeing report and, if so, what action has he taken to address concerns raised? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain. Leave granted. Mrs HURN House of Assembly Schubert Mrs HURN: The draft SA Health report details a 'cultural expectation that doctors work regardless of illness or lack of sleep, with those acting against this often being marginalised as 'weak'. The Hon. C.J. PICTON House of Assembly Kaurna Minister for Health and Wellbeing The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:13): Yes, I commissioned the report; yes, I have read the report; yes, the reason you have read it is because we put it out to unions for comment on it; and yes, it has recommendations in there to address the issues that were identified that we are accepting and are working on implementing. Going to the key point the Premier raised, as well, we are continuing to hire and train and put in place additional medical staff to make sure that we have got the resources. However, there is a whole range of things, if the shadow minister has read the report, in those recommendations around how we do leadership programs, around how we make sure that we can address the fatigue of staff, and how we can make sure we have the right wellbeing support for our doctors, that we are implementing. That is why we did this work proactively, so that we could identify these issues, so that we could make sure that we are caring and supporting our staff, because that is what we, as a government, are committed to doing. This work was not done previously, and these issues have been there for many, many years. Go and talk to any of our doctors and they will tell you that these are not new issues. But what is new is that these issues are being identified, they are being worked on and there are recommendations to address them. We are hiring additional staff, but we are putting in place a whole range of other things to support our doctors and the work that they do.