Legislative Council Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2) 54 2 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time SA Pathology SA Pathology The Hon. T.A. FRANKS Legislative Council SA Pathology The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:23): Supplementary: have past rounds of voluntary separation packages reduced capacity in SA Pathology and in SA Health more broadly? The Hon. S.G. WADE Legislative Council Minister for Health and Wellbeing SA Pathology The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:23): What I would stress about packages such as voluntary separation packages is it gives an opportunity for agencies to, shall we say, refocus their workforce for the contemporary challenges the workforce faces. SA Pathology could not be a better example of an organisation that has had to be incredibly dynamic. In terms of the suggestion that we are using TVSPs to reduce the workforce, the figures just speak for themselves. As I said earlier, there has been a net increase of more than 2½ thousand health staff across the health services under the Marshall Liberal government, and a thousand of those in the last year alone.