House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2024-02-20 Daily Xml

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Paediatric Cochlear Implant Program

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (14:56): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. How many independent clinical assessments have now been completed by NextSense on the back of the review into the Paediatric Cochlear Implant Program at the Women's and Children's Hospital?

The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:56): My advice is that there have now been 107 individual assessments that have been completed by NextSense of children who access the program, and that was up until December. NextSense is now preparing detailed reports for the children that they have assessed and WCHN is providing individual meetings for the families to further discuss their findings. We are expecting a consolidated report and I obviously would like to release that publicly. We haven't received that yet but those individual family meetings are occurring to provide those families with the information from their NextSense reviews.