Bombshell moves as top SA Health ED bosses quit
Key emergency department doctors have stood down from leadership roles at the RAH and Flinders Medical Centre, as ambulance ramping continues to spiral out of control.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Key emergency department doctors have stood down from leadership roles at the RAH and Flinders Medical Centre, as ambulance ramping continues to spiral out of control.
It created a stir when unveiled but the $750,000, 12-patient “ambus” quickly faded from public attention. Despite initial doubts, officials now say it’s a “valuable asset”.
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.
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.
As ramping rocketed in SA, an elderly man was left waiting more than five hours for help – and when it finally arrived it was too late to save his life.
SA Health released a tender on expressing interest in transforming a “ready-made” facility into a makeshift hospital with 25 beds to ease ramping pressures across Adelaide.
The state’s ambulance union says SA Health is not enforcing its own policy to cut hospital ramping rates.
An embattled US company awarded a lucrative taxpayer contract to create a world-leading Adelaide cancer centre had a “clinically unproven” system, a leaked official assessment warned.
SA Health will end its internal code yellow emergency this month – but documents show its measures will continue, under new names.
Time lost to ambulance ramping has smashed the 5000-hour mark for the first time, as there appears no end in sight for the ongoing saga gripping our health system.
SA Health is neither confirming nor denying bombshell whistleblower claims about one of its key agencies, issuing a terse “no comment.”
Slowly going blind in one eye, Peter Goers waited patiently for 18 months for cataract surgery in our public health system. When the day arrived, the surgery was cancelled.
Labor has ploughed $7.1bn into fixing ramping but has the money been wasted, asks Paul Starick.
Hundreds of elective surgeries have been cancelled as SA Health’s code yellow drags on for two months with no end in sight.
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