Southern Suburbs Health Update
Ms CLANCY (Elder) (16:34): I just want to take this opportunity to talk about some of what is going on in health in the southern suburbs, in particular in my area of the electorate of Elder. Recently, my colleagues the member for Gibson and the Minister for Health and I were at the Marion Ambulance Station in Mitchell Park, where we did a press conference around the fact that we would not just be doing a redo, a renovation, of the current station but doing a full rebuild, which is really exciting.
It will be much more fit for purpose and a lot better for the ambulance officers working out of there. It will be up and running by the end of 2026. I am sure some of them, during this period, will happily go to work in our new Edwardstown Ambulance Station, which I was proud to help open just a couple of months ago. That new ambulance station is at the Repat, and it is very schmick. I am sure people are really happy to be working in it now.
Also at the Repat we have opened 32 new beds. Twenty-six of those are part of the GEM Unit and six are part of the care facility. That is part of the 228 extra hospital beds in Adelaide's south that we are delivering across Flinders, Noarlunga and the Repat. Also in the south, we have opened our 24/7 pharmacy in Clovelly Park on South Road. Across the state, we are delivering more than 600 extra hospital beds, and we have already hired over 1,400 additional health staff. I am really proud to be part of a government that is actually getting it done.