Legislative Council Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1) 54 1 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Hospital Beds Hospital Beds The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN Legislative Council Hospital Beds The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:35): A further supplementary question: can the minister explain exactly how his stand-by closure of 60 beds will reduce this record ramping, as well as cutting doctors and nurses? How will that reduce this record ramping under his watch? The Hon. S.G. WADE Legislative Council Minister for Health and Wellbeing Hospital Beds The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:35): Let's give some of your examples. If you were turning up at the hospital on one of the days where the hospital was at 100 per cent capacity or more, and you were in the ambulance in the emergency department, I would suggest to you that you had no chance of getting a bed. If there are no beds before you even arrive at the emergency department, you have absolutely Buckley's chance of getting one. It is beyond belief that the opposition cannot understand that a full hospital does not work. The President Legislative Council The PRESIDENT: One last question, the Hon. Ms Scriven.