‘Like being in a war zone’: Staff hit breaking point at under-siege RAH
Another night, another horror show in the Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency department. And medical unions say it’s leaving staff at breaking point.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Adelaide’s newly opened ED already under siege as RAH spills
It didn’t take long for the newly upgraded Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s emergency room to fill up.
Why it’s about to cost more to see a doctor
A new state tax hit on GPs will flow on to embattled EDs from Monday, the Australian Medical Association warn – find out what it means for you.
New mums yet to be told if caught up in due date debacle
Mothers engulfed in an SA Health blunder that miscalculated due dates of their baby’s birth are still yet to know whether they have been adversely affected.
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Penbo: Ash the Ambo long gone as Mali faces ramping reality
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‘Gaslighting, suicidal ideation’: Report slams culture in SA Health unit
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Inside the life-and-death moments of SA’s most premature babies
For SA’s tiniest patients, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. Meet the heroes making sure these little ones make it home.
‘Deaths have happened’: Top doc says politics killing patient care
As ramping hits record levels, a top doctor claims patients are being left to die while bureaucrats order ambulances to unload less urgent cases to fudge figures.
Claims ambo patients jump ED queues to fudge ramping figures
The doctors’ union president has made astonishing claims that the sickest patients in emergency waiting rooms are being leapfrogged to make ramping statistics look better.
Baby steps: Work starts on first stage of new WCH
Work is set to begin on the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, focusing on the eight-storey carpark – with 1300 spaces.
‘Extraordinary’: Huge uprising against under-fire SA hospital
A petition demanding upgrades and changes to a regional hospital has triggered a massive response, with one MP calling it “momentous”.
Cancer patient ‘left to die’ claims he’s ‘lost in the system’
Cancer patient Wayne Talbot says he was “lost in the system” as his cancer spread but SA Health and the Health Minister say there have been “no delays”.
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