<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd">
  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-07-03" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="3995" />
  <endPage num="4041" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Hospital Security</name>
      <text id="201907033334cd3dccf94aef80000185">
        <heading>Hospital Security</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4867" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.T. NGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-07-03">
            <name>Hospital Security</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2019-07-03T15:00:29" />
        <text id="201907033334cd3dccf94aef80000186">
          <timeStamp time="2019-07-03T15:00:29" />
          <by role="member" id="4867">The Hon. T.T. NGO (15:00):</by>  Supplementary question: can the minister confirm that any additional security measures will be rolled out across all hospitals and not just at the Lyell McEwin?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2019-07-03">
            <name>Hospital Security</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2019-07-03T15:00:43" />
        <text id="201907033334cd3dccf94aef80000187">
          <timeStamp time="2019-07-03T15:00:43" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:00):</by>  The Department for Health and Wellbeing and the local health networks and their recently appointed boards are constantly looking at security issues. As an indication of that, Country Health has had a review going, I suspect perhaps for the last 12 months. My understanding is that a report will be finalised in the middle of this year. Two of the country sites that have experienced security issues in recent months include Meningie and Whyalla, so certainly that is an example of the government taking a broader view of hospital security. Considering that not only from a point of view of our duty of care to our workers but also as an employer with our occupational health and safety duties, of course worker safety is part of the core responsibilities of the department and the LHNs as employers.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>