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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Hospital Beds

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:42): One supplementary, Mr President.

The PRESIDENT: I'll allow you a supplementary.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: Thank you, Mr President. Does the minister have any idea whatsoever about what the procedure is for those closed stand-by beds to be used again?

The PRESIDENT: The minister.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Any idea? Even a clue? No.

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:42): The honourable member—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Just take it on notice.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: No, no, I'm not going to take it on notice, because this is so silly; I'd like to have a go. It's so silly, because hospital beds go on stand-by on the weekend. Hospital beds go on stand-by during leave periods. This is standard operational practice. What the Central Adelaide Local Health Network is planning to do is to make that 60 beds surge capacity, to develop that as we lead out of the winter period, as we are expecting activity to decrease in October, November and into the Christmas-New Year period so that as we go into next year the hospital will be much more able to deal with surge in capacity.

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