Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
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.
Colleen Billows, 88, was stuck in the overflow area of the RAH for four days, with no windows, no TV and a unisex bathroom before she was finally given some good news.
SA Health services across the state have been hit by an “absolutely diabolical” IT outage, which doctors say is putting patients’ lives are at risk.
Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia has sent a stern warning to any Liberal MP thinking of putting late-term abortion back on the parliamentary agenda.
Ramping numbers continued to fall for the third month running, but the opposition has claimed it’s still “the worst ramping in state history.”
A glossy sales pitch to sell the embattled Western Hospital would see its loss-making ICU turned into a lucrative high dependence unit, as well as another big switch.
A barrage of infectious diseases is sweeping through South Australia with health officials imploring the sick to stay home.
Key emergency department doctors have stood down from leadership roles at the RAH and Flinders Medical Centre, as ambulance ramping continues to spiral out of control.
It created a stir when unveiled but the $750,000, 12-patient “ambus” quickly faded from public attention. Despite initial doubts, officials now say it’s a “valuable asset”.
The homegrown “Adelaide Score” using AI to speed up patient discharge has proved successful – and now the Adelaide name could be used to cut ramping in hospitals worldwide.
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