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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Hospital Beds

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:15): My question is to the Premier. Was a constituent of the member for Davenport sent home in excruciating pain from Flinders Medical Centre yesterday as a consequence of your policy to close hospital beds?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:15): Whilst I have no knowledge of the case that the Leader of the Opposition refers to, I do highlight again the massive investment that we have made since coming to government to fix the mess that we inherited from those opposite. I presume the person that the Leader of the Opposition is referring to is in the southern system. We have worked very hard to put 50 beds back into the southern system at the Repat site. It's part of our $78 million commitment so far to reactivating the Repat site that those opposite closed.

We have also developed and delivered a 12-bed acute medical unit at Noarlunga. You see, sir, we are 110 per cent focused on delivering the very best health system that we possibly can for the people of South Australia.

Ms Cook interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member Hurtle Vale is on two warnings.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: That has resulted so far in a more than $1 billion additional budget allocation to the health system in South Australia. This has come at a difficult time for us in this state because we have had a massive writedown in the GST distribution to South Australia, but health is so important that we have had to put money in to fix the mess that we inherited. Have we—

Ms Cook interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hurtle Vale, I remind you that you are on two warnings. If you want to leave the chamber, you are going about it the right way. Premier.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I make the point that there is a lot of work to do. Have we solved every single problem? The answer to that is no, but we are working in a logical way through the disaster that we inherited when the previous government decided to concentrate all services in the three major spine hospitals in metropolitan Adelaide—the Flinders Medical Centre, the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Lyell McEwin Hospital—and downgrade the services everywhere else. We are going to be working very hard to build up those services to take that pressure off the spine hospitals. It takes time and it takes money and we are absolutely 100 per cent committed to making sure that that money is available.

Mr Boyer interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Wright is warned. Leader.

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