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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-10-16" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Flinders Medical Centre</name>
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        <heading>Flinders Medical Centre</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2018-10-16">
            <name>Flinders Medical Centre</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-16T14:55:12" />
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (14:55):</by>  My questions are to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing:</text>
        <text id="201810166eec4af80aaf496390000194">1.&amp;#x9;Has the minister undertaken any independent investigation, or sought any legal advice, regarding the norovirus outbreak at the Flinders Medical Centre and the breach of infection control guidelines?</text>
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        <text id="201810166eec4af80aaf496390000195">2.&amp;#x9;What legal or financial risk has the government been exposed to by not following correct infection control protocols at the Flinders Medical Centre?</text>
        <text id="201810166eec4af80aaf496390000196">3.&amp;#x9;Have nurses at the Flinders Medical Centre been instructed not to speak publicly about the risk of the norovirus outbreak?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Health and Wellbeing</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-10-16">
            <name>Flinders Medical Centre</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-16T14:55:50" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:55):</by>  I am not aware of any legal risk. I will seek advice in relation to the last question. This government does not believe in silencing health workers, and certainly not in the context of infection issues.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  A supplementary, the Hon. Mr Wortley?</text>
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