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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Hospital Bed Commitment and Staffing</name>
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          <heading>Hospital Bed Commitment and Staffing</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Hospital Bed Commitment and Staffing</name>
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          <inserted>18 <by role="member" id="3164" referenceid="79dc8a501398441b8ca75e3aff916323">The Hon. S.G. WADE </by>().6 July 2022).  </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;In relation to the Malinauskas government's commitment to 310 hospital beds, for each set of beds at each hospital, what type of care will be provided through the beds in terms of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare METeOR identifier, namely:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Acute care</inserted>
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            <inserted>Rehabilitation care</inserted>
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            <inserted>Psychogeriatric care</inserted>
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            <inserted>Maintenance care</inserted>
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            <inserted>Other admitted patient care?</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Under the Nursing/Midwifery (South Australian Public Sector) Enterprise Agreement 2020, what level of staffing would be required for each set of beds? </inserted>
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      <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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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="18">
            <name>Hospital Bed Commitment and Staffing</name>
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            <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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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;The member is advised to refer to the state budget documents which outline our government's commitments regarding bed allocations.</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Consideration of nursing ratios form part of the implementation strategy.</inserted>
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