‘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.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
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.
Baby steps: Work starts on first stage of new WCH
Work is set to begin on the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, focusing on the eight-storey carpark – with 1300 spaces.
‘Extraordinary’: Huge uprising against under-fire SA hospital
A petition demanding upgrades and changes to a regional hospital has triggered a massive response, with one MP calling it “momentous”.
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What’s up Doc? Salaries, actually
More hospital cost increases go to the rising wages of doctors, nurses and admin staff, rather than service improvements.
Check your surgeon’s success rates before they operate
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SA Health’s aged-care Covid rules ‘may spread’ infection
Aged-care residents who contract Covid will be moved to hospital as “an exception” under SA Health rules, meaning the virus could spread like wildfire, experts say.
How Theo’s death reveals a black hole in SA’s hospitals
Theo went to his local hospital five times for help with depression. Undiagnosed, he was repeatedly sent home. His tragic suicide lays bare the utter failings within SA’s health system.
Doctor’s huge SA Health bullying payout overturned
A senior Adelaide doctor awarded compensation after a tribunal held she was the target of bullying and discrimination has had her legal victory dashed.
Another rural GP attacks SA Health: ‘I have absolute contempt’
A second country doctor says rural health is “in a crisis situation” and puts the blame squarely on SA Health.
Small town’s only GP quits in disgust at SA Health
A well-respected SA doctor who’s the only GP in a small Eyre Peninsula town has resigned after giving SA Health a withering serve.
RAH’s urgent emails rejected as spam by Melbourne hospital
An internal RAH memo has warned about a “significant” risk to patients because another hospital is sending back its crucial emails.
Inside the new WCH: outdoor gardens, 12 levels and ‘hot floors’
The first detailed internal plans for the new WCH – mapping out the proposed placement of clinical spaces – have been revealed. Watch the videos showing the designs floor by floor.
FIFO doctors bring sky-high costs but not enough care
Seven hospitals now rely entirely on casual doctors being offered thousands of dollars per shift as SA Health faces claims it’s hiding the true cost of the “crumbling system”.
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