SA Health boss goes private over 20,000 stuck in hospital queues
The head of SA’s public hospital system says she’s ordered new measures to free up the system, as tensions simmer between stressed paramedics and ED staff.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Brutal stabbing highlights another deadly side to ramping crisis
People with mental health issues are clogging up emergency departments – often for days – SA’s health minister has admitted.
Ambos v nurses: How ramping is causing conflict in patient care
As elective surgery lists blow out new documents on ramping reveal tensions rising as ambulance officers and ED clinicians try to do their best for patients amid clashes over priorities.
‘Gentle giant’: Former carer’s tribute for Eddie
The 54-year-old who died in excruciating pain after waiting more than 10 hours for an ambulance has been described as a “beautiful man”.
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Take our poll: Should Spurrier stay on for three more years?
The face of SA’s Covid fightback, Professor Nicola Spurrier, has been rehired after her “extraordinary” leadership during the pandemic.
On the sick list: Patients reveal what they think of hospitals
The annual survey of patient satisfaction with their care in hospitals shows a shift in all 10 core areas in 2021 – and in some areas, it’s critical.
Revealed: How much the government makes from hospital parking
After health workers walked out on strike over the fees charged at hospital car parks, we can reveal how much the state government rakes in from the controversial measure.
Push for prison in hospitals to deal with meth-head flood
ED doctors are facing 60 violent meth-affected patients every day in SA – and want police to put those under arrest into a special custody area when they’re being treated.
Ambulance service wins award but it shows how bad things could be
SA Ambulance Service has won a national award for diverting 000 callers away from hospital emergency departments – imagine ramping and blocked EDs if they hadn’t.
CFS fires up after ambos call in the fireys
One of the state’s fire services says its volunteers are already being called to traumatic jobs outside of their scope.
‘It can probe cancer cells like never before’: Revolutionary tech coming to SA
Extraordinary technology that will revolutionise patient care by allowing clinicians to peer deep inside cancer cells and clogged arteries is coming to SA.
‘Every right to go to a pub’: Minister defends hospital staff party
The state’s health minister has weighed in after 50 emergency department staff went to a party a furious colleague called a Covid superspreader event.
South Australians are dying while waiting to see a doctor
Waiting lists for SA’s public health specialists are so long people are dying before getting to see a doctor.
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