Nurse Safety

The Hon. J.E. HANSON (14:49): Supplementary: what are the conditions of the 22 nurses at the Whyalla Hospital who have been assaulted in the past month? Have any been seriously injured or required time away from work to recover, and were they protected by security guards at the time of that assault?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:50): Let me make clear that any assault is of concern. Certainly, the numbers of reported assaults do not tally with what the ANMF said in its press release and what the network has told me, so I am not going to look for 22 assaults. I will ask for information in response to the honourable member's question and I will bring that back.