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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-02-18T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Public Hospitals</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Public Hospitals</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="dafeed0533b541fbb34c061cd66f6b5e" 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="2025-02-18T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="421">
            <name>Public Hospitals</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-02-19T00:00:00+10:30" />421 <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="dafeed0533b541fbb34c061cd66f6b5e">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().28 November 2024).  Can the Minister for Health and Wellbeing advise—</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Can the minister provide all information regarding: the cost per national weighted activity unit for the periods 30 June-1 July for each of the years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23, for the hospitals listed below:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Flinders Medical Centre;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000695">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Royal Adelaide Hospital;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000696">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Lyell McEwin Hospital;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000697">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Modbury Hospital;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000698">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>The Queen Elizabeth Hospital;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000699">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Noarlunga Hospital;</inserted>
          </item>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000700">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service;</inserted>
          </item>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000701">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Port Augusta Hospital and Health Services, and</inserted>
          </item>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000702">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Whyalla Hospital and Health Service?</inserted>
          </item>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000703">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;The average length of stay in each of the hospitals listed above, for the same periods?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="c8f0d5fe37cb4ea0853378a31eb91d97" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2025-02-18T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="421">
            <name>Public Hospitals</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000704">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="c8f0d5fe37cb4ea0853378a31eb91d97">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;SA Health provides costing data to the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority on the cost per national weighted activity unit. This information is publicly available at National Benchmarking Portal (NBP) which is publicly accessible at https://www.ihacpa.gov.au.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The benchmarking portal includes insights from data collected between 2017-18 and 2021-22. The NBP has three areas of focus:</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000707">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Cost per NWAU;</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000708">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Hospital acquired complications (HACs); and</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000709">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Avoidable hospital readmissions (AHRs).</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;SA Health provide data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) who publish data (https://www.aihw.gov.au).</inserted>
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        <text id="202502185bcbb4565971467aa0000711">
          <inserted>Data on average overnight length of stay (days) is publicly accessible at https://www.aihw.gov.au.</inserted>
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