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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 Care</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Mental Health Care</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="36">
            <name>Mental Health Care</name>
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          <inserted>36 <by role="member" id="3164" referenceid="79dc8a501398441b8ca75e3aff916323">The Hon. S.G. WADE </by>().6 July 2022).  For each of the past four years, how many patients were transferred from each of the local health networks beyond the metropolitan area of Adelaide to Adelaide-based services (including designated rural mental health services) to receive mental health care?</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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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="36">
            <name>Mental Health Care</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>For people who were transferred from country hospitals to metropolitan mental health acute units in:</inserted>
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            <inserted>2017-18 there were 104</inserted>
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            <inserted>2018-19 there were 90</inserted>
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            <inserted>2019-20 there were 106</inserted>
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            <inserted>2020-21 there were 114</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Malinauskas Labor Government is committed to the establishment of a mental health unit at Mount Barker Hospital and delivering an additional six mental health beds at Mount Gambier Hospital.</inserted>
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