Country Hospitals

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:44): Supplementary: does the minister accept that transferring metropolitan patients to country hospitals risks displacing country patients into metropolitan hospitals, at times?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:44): I should make clear that the 60 patients are a mix of both country patients and metropolitan patients. I think it would be somewhat disingenuous for Labor to suggest that this is a risk to patient care, considering that this was a key plank of the NRAH move strategy used by the previous government last year.