‘Gaslighting, suicidal ideation’: Report slams culture in SA Health unit
A disturbing bullying culture exposed by a review into the Forensic Mental Health Service needs urgent action, it has been recommended.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Inside the life-and-death moments of SA’s most premature babies
For SA’s tiniest patients, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. Meet the heroes making sure these little ones make it home.
‘Deaths have happened’: Top doc says politics killing patient care
As ramping hits record levels, a top doctor claims patients are being left to die while bureaucrats order ambulances to unload less urgent cases to fudge figures.
Claims ambo patients jump ED queues to fudge ramping figures
The doctors’ union president has made astonishing claims that the sickest patients in emergency waiting rooms are being leapfrogged to make ramping statistics look better.
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More upheaval in SA Health’s top ranks
He saved SA Pathology from privatisation and pioneered drive-through Covid test clinics, now agency boss Associate Professor Tom Dodd has quit amid SA Health’s shake-up.
Premier promises to lock in nurse-to-patient ratios
The new Premier has promised to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios for the state’s hospitals, but there is no timeline and no specific numbers set down yet.
Six dead this month as ambulance ramping crisis grows
A man died after being stuck inside a ramped ambulance for five hours at Flinders, the union says, the sixth death this month linked to the growing crisis.
Former health minister ‘not informed’ of secret surgery ban
The former health minister says he was not aware that all non-elective surgery in public hospitals was suspended a day before the state election.
‘Examining all options’: Mali to look at Covid rules
Incoming premier Peter Malinauskas has told The Advertiser in an exclusive interview that he is prepared to challenge Covid rules as soon as he is sworn in on Monday.
‘Disaster’: Review to be held into ambulance delays
A man who died waiting two hours for an ambulance last night is the third patient to die in two days, the union says. Another person waited 11 hours for help overnight.
‘Libs must match this’: Labor vows $220m for new Hills hospital
Labor has vowed to build a new $220m hospital at Mount Barker with triple the number of beds – and now locals say the Liberals must match the promise.
Extra 50 beds, 48 doctors for new WCH, under Labor
More beds and doctors will be included in an expanded new Women’s and Children’s Hospital if Labor wins the March state election.
100 new doctors in ‘critical’ hospital cash injection: Labor
At least $62m will be spent over the next four years to recruit 100 public doctors, Labor has pledged. But the Liberal party says that’s a “dramtic slowing” of recruitment.
Labor’s ‘historic’ mental health promise
Labor has promised to spend $182m establishing dozens of new mental health beds in the party’s latest pledge to fix ramping.
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