Cancer fears as surgery stays on hold
Surgeries with the potential to detect cancer are among those facing cancellation for at least a week as South Australia’s health crisis reaches unprecedented levels.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
‘Respiratory illnesses’ blamed for elective surgery cancellation, ED surge
Patients are facing huge wait times at SA emergency departments as the state’s health crisis deepens.
Elective surgeries cancelled as ramping hours hit peak levels
Hours lost to ramping since Labor was elected will soon hit the 100,000 mark as elective surgery are cancelled.
Forever unknown: SA’s hospital Covid death toll a mystery
Just how many people went to SA hospitals for medical help, then caught Covid and died, will never be known according to SA Health.
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SA health hell: Worst public specialist waits (and how to cut the queue)
Some people are waiting up to five years to see public hospital specialists – and then face another delay for elective surgery. But there are ways to cut the queues. See the table.
Go public with cancer delay on Sunday, get appointment Tuesday
A man who went public over a five-month wait to see a public specialist about a positive cancer test has quickly been given an appointment – and placed on another “urgent” list.
Massive surge in cases as potentially deadly virus sweeps SA
Case numbers are sharply up across the state for a nasty respiratory virus that can force some children into hospital and is potentially deadly.
Specialist wait times fall … some to an astonishing 63 months
Waiting times to see some public hospital specialists have plunged by years as the system recovers – but some patients face an astonishingly long delay.
Key SA Health boss to leave top post
Central Adelaide Local Health Network boss Professor Lesley Dwyer will leave the jobs when her contract ends in November after the board felt “there is more to be done.”
Wife wants answers as husband dies after nine-hour hospital wait
A man died after being forced to wait more than nine hours in an Adelaide emergency department – and was never seen by a doctor.
‘Shocked’ Picton blindsided by WCH private lockout plan
The angry Health Minister has blasted WCH managers over a plan that effectively bars some obstetricians from performing private patient deliveries.
Dangerfield ramped at RAH emergency with collapsed lung
AFL star Patrick Dangerfield was forced to wait in the back of an ambulance with a cracked rib and collapsed lung at the Royal Adelaide Hospital because its ED was full.
Home-buying taxes slashed as SA dives into debt
First-home buyers were the big winners in the Labor government’s second budget, as the state is plunged billions of dollars further into debt.
Mali’s massive money pit – fixing SA Health is easier said than done
Peter Malinauskas boldly pledged to fix ambulance ramping. Now the Premier is learning promises are easy in opposition but have to be paid for in government, writes David Penberthy.
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