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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-09-06T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Residential Aged-Care Srategy Project</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Residential Aged-Care Srategy Project</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" referenceid="79dc8a501398441b8ca75e3aff916323" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="59">
            <name>Residential Aged-Care Srategy Project</name>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001306">
          <inserted>59 <by role="member" id="3164" referenceid="79dc8a501398441b8ca75e3aff916323">The Hon. S.G. WADE </by>().6 July 2022).  </inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001307">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What are the terms of reference for the Residential Aged Care Strategy project?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001308">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Who is leading the development of the strategy?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001309">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Who has been involved in the development of the strategy?</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001310">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;What progress is being made?</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001311">
          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;What are the next steps?</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001312">
          <inserted>6.&amp;#x9;When will the strategy be released?</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001313">
          <inserted>7.&amp;#x9;Will it be released publicly and in full?</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="59">
            <name>Residential Aged-Care Srategy Project</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001314">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001315">
          <inserted>In preference of a single residential aged-care strategy; SA Health is taking a care continuum view to aged care reform and service delivery.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001316">
          <inserted>In 2021, SA Health released the 'SA Health Regional Aged Care Strategy 2021 2025'. This strategy, available via the SA Health website. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001317">
          <inserted>This work considers both residential and community aged-care services, the future service needs of regional communities, workforce requirements, and the role of SA Health in supporting this.  </inserted>
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        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001318">
          <inserted>In line with the road map described in the strategy, regional local health networks have commenced work to understand their current state aged-care services and consider the impacts and requirements to support sustainable and high-quality aged-care services into the future.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20220906b53c55ed63394777a0001319">
          <inserted>As this work progresses, each of the regional local health networks will work with their local communities to develop for future service models.</inserted>
        </text>
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