A country practice: SA towns offering cash to lure docs
South Australian GPs have the chance to pocket an extra $10,000 – they’ve just got to go and work in the country. Find out the towns offering doctors a $10k sweetener to settle.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Tributes: ‘The children he helped save will be his enduring legacy’
The children’s lives he saved during their time in critical care will become Dr Michael Jung’s lasting legacy. Read the tributes and leave yours here.
Police investigation intensifies into alleged unprovoked attack on top doc
Police are leaving no stone unturned in their search for those responsible for a horror home invasion and attack on a beloved Adelaide doctor.
Hero doctor saved my baby: ‘With Dr Michael, we were in safe hands’
A mother has told of how the late Dr Michael Yung’s quick thinking saved her baby son Eli – and thousands of others – before his alleged brutal murder in a home invasion.
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Six dead this month as ambulance ramping crisis grows
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Former health minister ‘not informed’ of secret surgery ban
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‘Examining all options’: Mali to look at Covid rules
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‘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.
Meth ‘explosion’ fuels rise in ambulance ramping
A surge in violent meth-affected people having psychotic episodes is clogging hospital EDs, in turn causing ambulance ramping, a parliamentary committee has heard.
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