House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-09-21 Daily Xml

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Health Staffing

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (14:31): My question again is to the Minister for Health. How does the minister reconcile his claims in this house that we do not have enough allied health staff in our hospitals, with plans by the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network to reduce staff over the coming years?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:31): We will be realigning the way our allied health staff work across all different sites. We certainly want to have a significant shift to out-of-hospital care for patients so that patients can receive rehabilitation at home. All these things will mean that we can actually do more rehabilitation, and we will be realigning our workforce requirements and allied health staff as required.