House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-06-02 Daily Xml

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Repatriation General Hospital

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:16): My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister tell the house will Ward 17 need to be moved off the Daw Park site and co-located within an acute hospital given that the PTSD Advisory Panel, chaired by Professor Susan Neuhaus, is agreed that the new model of care for PTSD will include an in-patient component?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:16): It may need to be. I am waiting on advice from the committee. It will provide me with advice not only as to whether the Ward 17 being rebuilt at Daw Park is an option or whether it needs to go to another site, but I am still waiting on the committee to get to me with that advice. I hope to have that soon.