Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:34): My question is to the Minister for Health. Is the government committed to retaining the current number of respiratory inpatient beds at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) (14:34): The government is currently in the process of an exercise that I am, naturally, intimately involved with in ensuring that the government's stated policy position that we will be retaining key services, announced by the Premier back in June, is delivered. That's a substantial undertaking. We are working with clinicians in delivering that.