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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:01): My question is to the Minister for Health. Was there significant ramping of ambulances at Flinders Medical Centre yesterday and did a media adviser clash with a television cameraman to seek to prevent him from filming ambulances ramping at Flinders?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (15:01): There are two questions there, I will take them in sequence. The first is that, over a half-hour period, 12 ambulances arrived at the emergency department at the Flinders Medical Centre. That is a very significant presentation of ambulances in a very short period of time. Four of those patients were critical and needed to be seen immediately, including I think two who needed resuscitation. Those four critical patients were all seen immediately. There were some delays, of course, with the other patients, as you would expect when you have such a large number of presentations at an emergency department in a very, very short period of time.

To the second question, I have certainly seen reports that there was some sort of clash, or whatever you might want to call it, between an employee of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network and media. I was not there myself so I am not really in a position to comment. I understand that people who feel aggrieved are in the process of submitting complaints. The appropriate place to take that up is with the chief executive of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, who is that person's employer.

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