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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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        <heading>Elective Surgery</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5418" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5418">The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:11):</by>  A further supplementary: given the minister's claim of quality care, by how much, if at all, have the waiting lists reduced under your watch, given that we have 28 months for cardiology, 26 months for orthopaedics and 24 months for ENT surgeries, to name but a few.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2020-10-13">
            <name>Elective Surgery</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-10-13T15:11:49" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:11):</by>  I thank the member for her supplementary. Let me name a few: orthopaedics at the Women's and Children's Hospital, a reduction in the median wait time from 2.3 years to one month; ear, nose and throat services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, a reduction in the median wait time from 3.7 years to two years; rehabilitation medicine at TQEH, a reduction in the median wait time from 3.4 years to 10 months. To switch over to the maximum wait times: the ENT appointments at the RAH have fallen by nearly 14 years to 10 years.</text>
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