Mental Health Services

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:12): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Is the minister satisfied that safe and appropriate mental health care is being provided at all four sites in which the Chief Psychiatrist has now seen a need to intervene?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:12): The Chief Psychiatrist is responsible to both set the standards within mental health care in South Australia and enforce them. We have seen today three gazettals in relation to his preliminary report. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. He has prepared a preliminary report, and in the context of completing his preliminary report he has decided to put in place gazettals that he believes are necessary to support the quality of mental health services in the southern area. I have absolute confidence that if the Chief Psychiatrist needed to do more he would have done more.