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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>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Mental Health Staff</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Mental Health Staff</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="32">
            <name>Mental Health Staff</name>
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          <inserted>32 <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;How mental health staff positions have been funded over the last eight financial years by:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Local health network</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906a179ac4ecabd4dc480001054">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;By service and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;By health profession?</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;How many vacancies have there been in mental health staff positions over the last eight financial years by:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Local health network</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;By service and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;By health profession?</inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;How many mental health staff positions will be needed in the next four years:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Local health network</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;By service and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;By health profession? </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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="32">
            <name>Mental Health Staff</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>SA Health staffing is reported on in the Auditor-General's annual report, and the annual report of the Department for Health and Wellbeing.</inserted>
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