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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <heading>Auditor-General's Report</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-02-04">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5413">the Hon. E.S. BOURKE </by>(3 December 2020).  </inserted>
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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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            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;The following is a breakdown of the 293 positions referred to in the Auditor-General's annual report. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Central Adelaide Local Health Network:</inserted>
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                <cell>Employment Stream</cell>
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          <inserted>Statewide clinical support services:</inserted>
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                <cell>Employment Stream</cell>
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                <cell>Total</cell>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;The Auditor-General's interim audit of the Department for Health and Wellbeing's procurement and contract management, identified five contracts that were not executed before the contract commencement date from across four large SA Health panel arrangements (all selected on a sample basis) as follows:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Patient services panel agreement</inserted>
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            <inserted>IV access devices and administration consumables panel</inserted>
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            <inserted>Airway management and oxygen consumables</inserted>
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            <inserted>Sterile procedure packs.</inserted>
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