COVID-19 Business Guidance Documents

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:30): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding health.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The deputy leader will give the Hon. Ms Bourke the courtesy of being heard.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! And so will the minister.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.P. Wortley interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Wortley!

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE: I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding health.

Leave granted.

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE: The government's general guidance document for businesses specifically references 'a specific guidance document is available' for community healthcare services, including GP practices. My questions to the minister are:

1. When will the government give certainty to GPs by releasing specific guidances for primary healthcare services on how to manage a positive COVID-19 patient?

2. When will the government be releasing the specific guidance documents on managing a COVID case that has been promised for critical services, essential businesses and high-risk industries?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:31): I appreciate the honourable member was not here in the last couple of days, but I have answered this question in the last couple of days and the answer hasn't changed. They will be released in the next day or two.

The PRESIDENT: I will listen to the Hon. Ms Bourke, who is going to attempt to ask a supplementary on that answer.