Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Revelations a world-leading cancer-fighting facility set for Adelaide is at serious threat of collapse is “demoralising” for doctors, patients and families, medical experts say.
A $500m city facility promising the southern hemisphere’s first cancer-zapping proton beam therapy has been smashed by cost blowouts and delays that threaten the whole project.
Public hospitals are free unless a doctor deems you to be a “nursing home type patient” – as Fred and Beryl Coleman, aged 90 and 80, discovered to their great cost.
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.
A new $44m rehabilitation unit at Modbury Hospital is set to open in 2025, providing 24 mental health beds – see how it will look.
Despite foreign objects left inside patients and fatal medication errors, a national list of hospital disasters shows SA is actually improving.
In a national first, RAH experts will genetically modify children’s own immune cells to destroy a deadly brain cancer.
Physicians have added to the besieged WCH’s accreditation woes by demanding improvements for trainees to work there.
A surgeon who removed part of a man’s lung has told an inquest he was “horrified” and “disappointed” to discover the procedure was unnecessary.
The state government will take control of an empty retirement village across the road from a major Adelaide hospital for a vital health unit.
The senior physician who quit in a bombshell resignation letter has ripped into SA Health, claiming its executives are blowing millions of dollars.
SA’s hospital system has hit new levels of chaos, with overflowing EDs, snap inspections by outraged doctors, and the computer network holding all patient records crashing.
The head of the RAH emergency department has resigned via a four-page letter blasting SA Health for “offending the very humanity” of clinicians. Read her scathing letter here.
SA Health has another major hospital with accreditation problems as a Flinders Medical Centre unit joins two at the Women’s and Children’s in the “must do better” rankings.
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