House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
2008-11-25 Daily Xml

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MODBURY HOSPITAL ONCOLOGY SERVICE

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:51): My question is again to the Minister for Health. Will the Oncology Department at the Modbury Hospital be closing at the end of this year? The opposition has been informed by a patient who has been treated at the hospital for 12 years that the Oncology Department will close at the end of the year and that the doctor who has been seeing them will retire.

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:51): The deputy leader is correct, the doctor is retiring, and the health system is working through the options for continuing the service. I am advised that the service will continue under a new arrangement.