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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <endPage num="991" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000548">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Priority Care Centres</name>
      <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000549">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Priority Care Centres</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Priority Care Centres</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000550">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5414">the Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS </by>(6 February 2020).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Priority Care Centres</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000551">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000552">
          <inserted>In the first six weeks of operation in 2020, across the three priority care centres (PCCs) operating at that time, a total of 445 patients have been seen who would otherwise have been seen at an emergency department. The fourth PCC commenced in March following completion of renovations.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202006048cb3fca78c444ed290000553">
          <inserted>The overall weekday average number of people seen per site is 4.1. Numbers vary day to day across sites with up to 12 people receiving their care at a single site on a single weekday.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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