Inside Adelaide ED’s week from hell: Ramped – then heart attack hits
Two hours ramped with a heart attack and an impossible choice between three desperate patients for a doctor are among some “horrendous” cases.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Two hours ramped with a heart attack and an impossible choice between three desperate patients for a doctor are among some “horrendous” cases.
South Australia is on track to play a crucial role on election night even though it is no longer a battleground state, Paul Starick writes.
A highly contagious bug has put restrictions within the Flinders Medical Centre to try and stop the spread of the antibiotic-resistant CPE.
The $2.7bn Royal Adelaide Hospital is planning to move services out as it runs out of room, while an area it leased to a private consortium and now rents back at a higher rate may be turned “into a pizza bar.”
Claims hospital administrators are overtly and covertly pressuring clinicians to clear beds and prioritise ambulance arrivals is turning EDs into “Hunger Games” scenes, the doctors’ union says.
Patients triaged as “urgent” are waiting longer to be seen at public hospital EDs, an AMA report shows.
A relief doctor saw one patient at a regional SA hospital and walked out an hour into her four-day shift, claiming it was “dangerous” – now she’s been sanctioned.
As hospital staff increasingly call for help dealing with violent and aggressive people, The Advertiser can reveal hospital security guards are owed years of back pay.
Code Black calls for help from hospital staff facing intimidation, verbal threats and physicals assaults are on the rise with one regional area seeing them rise from seven to 159 in three years.
Automatic Special Leave for SA Health staff who test positive to Covid-19 is being reassessed, with plans for such workers no longer be directed to stay home from work unless they are ill.
Forging prescriptions, lying on resumes and impersonating a RAH nurse, these medical professionals had their registrations canned or restricted. Some of them weren’t even qualified.
A planned updated policy on ambulance transfers at EDs has alarmed clinicians who fear it will increase pressure to unload ambulance patients into already-clogged hospitals.
Ramping has risen for the third month in a row – but while the government says it’s way down, the Opposition called it a terrible start to 2025.
Ambulance ramping numbers increased in November, and with the government welcoming a recent decrease, there is still a way to go before the promised ‘fix’ is achieved.
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