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.
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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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We’ve been on the Covid frontline – it’s the unvaccinated who die
These frontline SA medical staff experienced life in a Covid ward in Melbourne, and tell of the devastation at watching unvaccinated patients die an avoidable death.
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
Surgeons face having their entire performance records published online – including death and surgical correction rates – under a push by a SA senator.
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.
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