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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-09-12T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Medical Training Survey</name>
      <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000795">
        <heading>Medical Training Survey</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-09-12T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Medical Training Survey</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-09-12T15:07:11+09:30" />
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000796">
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          <by role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d">The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:07):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney, representing the Minister for Health, a question about the Medical Training Survey.</text>
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000797">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5418" referenceid="e7b583be01404e74b438589370882e1d">The Hon. C. BONAROS:</by>  In September last year, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) conducted its inaugural, and now annual, MTS—1,550 South Australian doctors in training responded. The AMA (SA) Doctors in Training Committee has used the MTS data to explore the prevalence of cultural and safety issues affecting junior doctors in South Australia's training hospitals.</text>
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000799">Their report, titled AMA (SA) 2023 Hospital Health Check, included eight recommendations to improve the working conditions for junior doctors in South Australia. Amongst those recommendations are:</text>
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          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">SA Health to establish harassment and discrimination reporting pathways whilst improving access to acceptable work spaces for doctors and supporting increasing cultural diversity among international medical graduates in our state;</item>
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        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000801">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">state and federal governments provide modelling to determine future needs for non-GP and GP specialists across the country;</item>
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          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">CALHN to increase training and development opportunities for GP registrars as well as continue to monitor the outcomes of the Vanderbilt model in addressing bullying and other issues at the RAH; </item>
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        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000803">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">NALHN to examine the vastly different rates of reported bullying, harassment, discrimination, and racism between the LMH and Modbury over the last 12 months; and</item>
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        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000804">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">the systems, culture and workload at the Women's and Children's Hospital to be reviewed and improved before operations and staff move to any new site.</item>
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        <text continued="true" id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000805">My questions to the minister are:</text>
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000806">1.&amp;#x9;How many recommendations of the inaugural survey have been adopted or implemented by the government?</text>
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000807">2.&amp;#x9;Has the government considered the current recommendations and does it intend to respond to those recommendations?</text>
        <text id="20240912a3ae19ecad0a48cfa0000808">3.&amp;#x9;Is it considering implementing any of those recommendations and, if so, which ones?</text>
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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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        <startTime time="2024-09-12T15:09:20+09:30" />
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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) (15:09):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. I will certainly pass those questions on to the minister in another place and bring back a reply for her.</text>
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