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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>SA Health Staff</name>
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          <heading>SA Health Staff</heading>
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        <name>Mrs HURN</name>
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        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="96">
            <name>SA Health Staff</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-06-18T00:00:00+09:30" />96 96<by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c" uid="a776d48ddb2b4d57b6cacc9a630b2b18">Mrs HURN (Schubert) </by>(12 September 2023).  How many nurses are expected to be recruited over the forward estimates?</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What proportion will be due to activity growth, rather than increased staffing promised by the government?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
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        <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" uid="57a50f4f406440a8b865ede70f36115a">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>Recruitment of nurses will be undertaken to fill existing vacancies and those that arise in the future.</inserted>
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          <inserted>This includes the election commitment to recruit an additional 300 nurses across the system.</inserted>
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