House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2017-05-31 Daily Xml

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Oakden Mental Health Facility

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (14:25): Supplementary to the minister: did SA Health commit to a review?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:25): I will double-check the correspondence, but my—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: I will double-check the correspondence—

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is called to order.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —but my recollection from having just read the letter is that it was a particular issue about medical—

Mr Goldsworthy: He has all the detail except for this.

The SPEAKER: The member for Kavel is warned.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —cover at the Oakden facility. It referred to difficulties with having a particular clinician off sick, having adequate medical cover, and the chief executive of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network responded, saying that she would continue the locum arrangements. Whether there was a review or not, I am happy to check, but in the correspondence, from my cursory reading of it before I came into question time, she undertook to do what SASMOA had asked for. I can only presume that they were satisfied with the response because they never sought to escalate this issue to me.