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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Health Workers</name>
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          <heading>COVID-19 Health Workers</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Health Workers</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5414">the Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS </by>(3 February 2021).  </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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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Health Workers</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>
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        <page num="3246" />
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;The number of additionally mobilised staff deployed by SA Health fluctuates depending on need and as requests for additional resource are received. Additionally, mobilised workers are currently deployed within the State Control Centre—Health, COVID-19 contact centre, COVID-19 operations within Communicable Disease Control Branch, community testing stations, vaccination program, medi-hotels, procurement and supply chain management, Department for Health and Wellbeing (DHW), workforce services and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network.</inserted>
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          <inserted>SA Health will continue to use already deployed workers, wherever possible, to assist in the vaccination program.</inserted>
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