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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-06-19" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Modbury Hospital</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Modbury Hospital</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2018-05-29" qonNum="9">
            <name>Modbury Hospital</name>
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          <inserted>9 <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) </by>(29 May 2018).  </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Will the minister provide the names of the 107 people who signed a petition regarding the establishment of a stand-alone high dependency unit (HDU) at Modbury Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Will the minister advise which of the 107 people signatories were the 103 who supported the establishment of a stand-alone HDU at Modbury Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Will the minister advise who the remaining four signatories were and why they do not support establishment of a stand-alone HDU at Modbury Hospital?</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Will the minister explain who the signatories are and where about in Adelaide they practise medicine?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2018-05-29" qonNum="9">
            <name>Modbury Hospital</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>
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          <inserted>A petition relating to a Modbury HDU was reported in a Salaried Medical Officers Association letter addressed to then minister for health Peter Malinauskas and dated 30 October 2017. It stated:</inserted>
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            <inserted>"A questionnaire was circulated amongst some Modbury Hospital staff seeking a response to the following question; (sic) "Do you think a High Dependency Unit at Modbury Hospital will improve patient care and outcomes?"…There were 103 'Yes', 4 'unsure', there were 0 'No'."</inserted>
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          <inserted>I do not have the names of the signatories.</inserted>
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