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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Women's and Children's Hospital

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:40): Will the proposed new women's and children's hospital have at least as many operating theatres and birthing suites as the current hospital, and will the proposed hospital have at least as much research space as the current hospital?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:41): The decision that has been communicated by the task force today is about location. They have considered a range of locations and they have decided that, both in terms of capital and in terms of operating costs, the best location is the co-located site. In broad terms, I have been told that one other decision that is likely to come in the full report is that they are not going to take another leaf out of the Labor Party's book and build a hospital completely of single rooms—completely culturally inappropriate. There are many cultural groups who would prefer not to have single room occupancy. This hospital at least will be—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Just for the sake of the record, we have Labor Party members chortling at the prospect that culturally diverse groups might want a patient room which has more than one person in it. I would just like you to know that there are people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culturally diverse background who actually do have that preference.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! I can't hear the minister.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: It hardly surprises me that the task force is thinking more creatively about how to deliver a hospital. It is really quite amazing what crazy ideas come up when you start talking to clinicians. But, no, the hospital built by politicians and bureaucrats, the new RAH, is going so well that we should have taken that approach, apparently.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Ms Bonaros, you have the call.

The Hon. C.M. Scriven: Mr President, I was seeking your indulgence for a further supplementary.

The PRESIDENT: No, the Hon. Ms Bonaros caught my eye on a further supplementary.

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