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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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          <heading>Elective Surgery</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-06-18T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="" referenceid="40abd06ec15a40b1995c1130588dc41e">the Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Leader of the Opposition)</by> (21 June 2024).  (Estimates Committee B)</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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            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="1f2e9649e28f4051988bdd86238030f8">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>From 31 May 2024 to 20 June 2024, there was:</inserted>
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            <inserted>141 postponements at Central Adelaide Local Health Network</inserted>
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            <inserted>112 postponements at Northern Adelaide Local Health Network</inserted>
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            <inserted>52 postponements at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network</inserted>
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          <inserted>There were no postponements at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Network.</inserted>
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