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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-11-28T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>SA Health Focus Week</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>SA Health Focus Week</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2023-11-28T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>SA Health Focus Week</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">the Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().16 May 2023).  </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="2023-11-28T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>SA Health Focus Week</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 developed and ran a focus week this year to help give our clinicians the bandwidth to ensure our system can run as well as possible to meet the needs of our patients. </inserted>
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          <inserted>While focus week is not the singular solution to address ramping, it is important our clinicians have the opportunity to develop and trial new initiatives that could improve hospital flow and system capacity.</inserted>
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