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Women's and Children's Health Network

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:07): My question is to the Minister for Health. Has the minister spoken with the CEO of the Women's and Children's Health Network, Rebecca Graham, about the minutes of the board meeting held on 17 November 2024? If so, what was the nature of that conversation? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: Women's and Children's Health Network CEO, Rebecca Graham, was present in the meeting on 17 November when the executive project lead of the new Women's and Children's Hospital provided an update that the completion was projected by 2033-34, and in the subsequent meeting confirmed that the previous minutes were true and accurate.

The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:08): As I said to the house yesterday, I spoke to the Chair of the Women's and Children's Health Network board, Christine Dennis, and I outlined my conversations about it to the house yesterday. I haven't spoken specifically about this to Rebecca Graham, who is an outstanding public servant and is doing an excellent job as the CEO of the Women's and Children's Health Network.

While, of course, the Women's and Children's Health Network is not responsible for the delivery of the new Women's and Children's Hospital, both Rebecca Graham and Christine Dennis are making sure that their clinicians and their teams have input into the planning, the design and the function of the new hospital, to make sure that it is going to deliver the ultimate outcome that we want.

Of course, as I said to the house yesterday, in the delivery of the new Women's and Children's Hospital in 2022 the cabinet made responsible the key officers of the government, three of the most senior public servants in this state: the CEO of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, the CEO for the Department of Treasury and Finance and the CEO of the Department for Health and Wellbeing. They are the officers responsible to cabinet for the delivery of this project, and they are the officers to which the project director reports in terms of their delivery of the project.

Rebecca Graham and Christine Dennis are doing an excellent job in delivering services for women and children in this state. They continue to have input in terms of the design and the planning of the hospital to make sure that it meets the needs of the future, and they are obviously focused on not only providing that input but, importantly, the day-to-day running of those health services.

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