Breakthrough AI aims to cut down Adelaide ramping nightmare
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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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Record ramping … but you can now charge your car while you wait
As SA Health wrestles with record ramping, the RAH’s management has installed six EV charging stations adjacent the ED so people can charge their cars while they wait.
SA babies most at risk as whooping cough cases explode
Parents have been issued a stark warning after a huge ten-fold surge in cases of potentially deadly whooping cough in South Australia.
Radical plan to blitz surgery wait times as ramping hits grim milestone
With patients waiting up to six years to see a public hospital specialist, and new horror ramping figures, SA Health is planning to use the private sector in a bold bid to cut wait times.
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New hospital boss revealed in major SA Health appointment
The new CEO of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Network has been announced, five months after the abrupt resignation of the old head.
Date confirmed for battle for Marshall’s seat
About 27,000 voters in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs will go to the polls to replace former premier Steven Marshall in the state’s most marginal seat. Find out when.
Ambo ramping still ‘out of control’ – but there is one bit of good news
While persistently high ramping levels continue to plague the government – which promised to fix the crisis – there is good news on one other health metric.
SA public hospitals ‘catastrophic’ report exposes injury and death
Hospital catastrophes, faster ambo response times, longer waits to see a GP or be assessed for home care packages – a Productivity Commission report on health in SA has it all.
Woman’s agonising wait for ambulance hours before death
As SA’s ramping crisis continues, the family of a cancer sufferer has spoken out after she “waited and waited” in agony for an ambulance that didn’t arrive.
Triple-0 nightmare: Thousands call for ambulance but sent a cab
SA’s ambulance ramping crisis could be even worse, new figures suggest, as it’s revealed just how often SA now relies on cabbies instead of paramedics.
‘Shameful failures’: Huge ban for disgraced aged care nursing chief
A former nursing chief at the disgraced Oakden aged care home – which was once slammed as run like “a zoo” by “manipulative” and “incompetent” staff – has learned his fate.
Vax sacked: SA Health sticks to mandate amid ramping crisis
As hospitals struggle and ambulances ramp, SA Health has sacked hundreds of staff over vaccine mandates – and is sticking to the policy.
Key SA Health boss quits suddenly
The chief executive of a major SA Health network has resigned suddenly, leaving officials juggling staff to fill the job until a replacement is found.
‘Whitewash’: Top doc lashes ramping review findings
The doctor whose bombshell claims sparked a review into patient priority in hospitals claims its findings are a political whitewash and the reviewers need a “reality check”.
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