‘Check your secret messages’: Creepy doc’s wild claims for nude photos
An Adelaide doctor who sent medical students explicit photos and bought one a massager tried to argue his intentions were innocent. Read his bizarre excuses.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
‘Wish to die at home’: Palliative care overhaul aims to honour patients’ wishes
Ambulance officers could soon be empowered to play a bigger role in palliative care that aims to honour patients’ wishes.
Adelaide’s new WCH five-star design revealed in aerial images
The new $3.2bn Women’s and Children’s Hospital has been redesigned after staff concerns about layout – see how it will look.
82-year-old woman ramped in excruciating pain for three hours
An elderly woman has spoken out after being ramped for more than three hours in terrible pain after a bus accident in the CBD.
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‘Are you telling me we just sit around waiting for him to die?’
A distressed teen was held face down and isolated at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in breach of rules, an alarming report has revealed, with his family in despair.
$130m boost to free up EDs, hospital beds
More than $130m will be in the state budget for virtual health care – where patients are assessed remotely – in a bid to unclog emergency departments and ease ambulance ramping.
Is this $2m plan finally going to fix the ambulance crisis?
Two specialised hubs will be built in Adelaide’s west and north so ambulances can be redirected away from busy hospitals, in a bid to ease ramping.
WCH set for $20m upgrade after damning report
The WCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit lost its teaching accreditation, but a $20m boost in Thursday’s budget aims to restore it to the highest standards.
Doctor backlash sparks major hospital backflip
An order to doctors to fast track their rounds to free up hospital beds and ease ramping has been dumped after it failed dismally.
Is this the best nursing job in SA?
Thinking about a new nursing job? What about a 14-day “weekend,” free accommodation and more perks?
‘I’m afraid they’ve died’: How SA trauma doctor delivers the worst news
The Royal Adelaide Hospital’s director of trauma Dan Ellis has one of SA’s hardest jobs – telling people their loved one didn’t make it.
New Hills hospital emergency dept to open in days
Mount Barker’s hugely expanded emergency department is set to open within days, with a dozen more treatment bays than the old one.
Boss duped in ‘Catch Me If You Can’ scandal lands SA Health job
A senior public servant who resigned amid a scandal over failures in hiring a fraudster to the premier’s department is the new top bureaucrat overseeing SA Health control systems.
$15k cash to lure doctors, nurses to – and around – SA
The state government is offering up to $15,000 to healthcare workers around the world to move to SA – and people already here can benefit.
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