Modbury Hospital

The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (14:52): A further supplementary arising from the answer: has the minister actually received advice to say that a high dependency unit would be clinically viable and not risk patient safety?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:53): I met with Professor Andrew Burston recently and discussed the work of the working group. Professor Burston reiterated his view that not only would an HDU be safe but he questioned how you could increase the level of services at the site without an HDU. Let's remember this is the person that the former government had review the HDU twice and said that the former government was so poorly resourcing the HDU at Modbury Hospital that there were concerns about safety. But this government is committed to properly resourcing an HDU at Modbury and the person who is co-chairing that work is the same person who raised concerns about your former government's program.