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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Women's and Children's Hospital

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:55): Further supplementary: can the minister also guarantee the new hospital that is proposed will have adequate space to accommodate all the current and proposed specialty services at the current Women's and Children's Hospital?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:55): The planning process is going on as we speak and of course there will be debate as to what we need going forward, particularly in terms of quantity. I know that there are discussions going on with other hospitals about what we need to be doing to develop women's and children's health services across the state. For example, the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network has what the health system tends to call a lower self-sufficiency ratio. In other words, a lower level of their services are delivered within their network.

This government was elected on a commitment, in contrast to Labor's centralising Transforming Health, of delivering care closer to home, so there may well be realignment of services to make sure that services are delivered where the customers are, not where the hospital is.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

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