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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.M. SCRIVEN (14:27): Supplementary arising from the original answer: can the minister guarantee to the chamber that the hospital does have more than one additional paediatric overnight bed in terms of the plans for the new Women's and Children's Hospital?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:27): What I will guarantee to the house is that this government is making a generational investment in health infrastructure and we are not going to botch it, as the former Labor government did in relation to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —to deliver holistic, state-of-the-art healthcare facilities for South Australian—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —women, children and families. Whereas Labor locked clinicians out of the process, we have been investing—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —more than $600,000—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Ms Bourke, order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —to free up the time of medical officers so they can be involved in the consultation process. It's a dedicated—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, the Hon. Mr Hunter!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —and intensive consultation program where more than 700 people have been involved.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Five hundred and eighty of those have been clinicians, 110 other staff and 35 consumers. We are very determined to make sure that this investment—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —will be founded on the needs of the South Australian community and the input of clinicians.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Mr Hunter will cease interjecting.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Recently, we had a two-day intensive workshop, which brought the consultation to a conclusion, that made recommendations to the executive steering committee. As I said, the government will make an announcement in due course.

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