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Web SA Ambulance Service Workforce (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:32): It is quite incredible to get this sort of question from the opposition when they starved the Ambulance Service of resources for their four years in government to the point where they actually cut the funding to the Ambulance Service. We have made a very clear commitment as p... -
Web Patient Assistance Transport Scheme (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:19): I thank the member for MacKillop for his question and his passionate advocacy on behalf of his constituents when it comes to health care. I know PATS is a very important scheme for everybody in country Australia in terms of being able to access health care and being able to a... -
Web Emergency Department Closures (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:27): I am very happy to provide information in terms of some unplanned closures that happened to hospitals such as Gumeracha, that happened to hospitals such as Strathalbyn, that closed under the former Marshall Liberal government. These were hospitals where the emergency departme... -
Web Mental Health Services (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:42): I am happy to address the issue in terms of private psychiatric hospitals across Australia. Of course, I think the government that the member is referring to in that quote, that that organisation is referring to, is the federal government in terms of the funding models. We kn... -
Web Community Pharmacy (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:48): I thank the member for Dunstan for her question and her very significant interest in terms of pharmacy and the role that it can provide in our healthcare services, and particularly in the very important 24-hour pharmacy that we have established on The Parade at Norwood throug... -
Web Optus Emergency Outage (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:17): I reiterate what the Minister for Emergency Services has said and what the Premier said in terms of what the situation was with Optus both here and in Western Australia and the Northern Territory being completely unacceptable. There is a lot of national action that is now und... -
Web South Australian Virtual Emergency Service (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:26): The South Australian Virtual Emergency Service, otherwise known as SAVES, is in operation at a lot of sites already across the state. I don't have the full list in front of me, but I am happy to take that on notice. What we were able to announce this morning was that Barossa ... -
Web Mental Health Services (Question Time) - 16/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:40): I am happy to inform the shadow minister that part of the summer plan, which has been committed to by the government and announced in the past couple of days, is funding for mental health. We recognise that this was an important element that needed to be provided. In fact, th... -
Web Peterborough GP Services (Question Time) - 15/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:38): I thank the member for Stuart for his question and his advocacy on behalf of his community—in particular, in this case, Peterborough. As we have talked about in this house before, the GP services in the Peterborough community have been provided for many, many years by the Goy... -
Web Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (Question Time) - 15/10/2025
The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:51): I thank the member for his question and acknowledge the important work that stoma therapy nurses provide, not just to his community but right across the state. As many people would be aware, a stoma therapy nurse supports patients who have undergone a procedure to develop a s...
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