Warning against aged care Covid lockdowns as new wave hits
As Covid cases shoot up in South Australia, advocates for the elderly have warned against rushing into lockdowns of aged care homes.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
‘Shocking failure’: WCH cochlear implant scandal widens
A review of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital cochlear implant scandal has revealed more people have possibly been caught up in the bungle, dating back to the early 1990s.
Frequent flooding, leaking roofs: Hospital hit by more horror claims
An embattled regional hospital is structurally unsound in parts and prone to frequent flooding from leaking roofs, putting patients, staff, visitors and sensitive records at risk.
Horror in the morgue: Hospital left body so long it ‘dissolved to liquid’
A major regional hospital is facing a widened investigation after a corpse “turned to liquid” in its morgue – the second shocking revelation this week. WARNING: Graphic content
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Hundreds of triple-0 calls get sent a taxi instead
Paramedics are now sending taxis to hundreds of people who call triple-0 for an ambulance after deciding their condition isn’t serious enough.
Medics under attack 36 times a day
Violence in SA hospitals is on the rise, with nurses and doctors experiencing an average of more than 36 incidents a day – including spitting, choking and biting.
Third boss in 12 months for key Adelaide health service
One of Adelaide’s biggest health networks will have an interim CEO for at least a year, after the old acting boss took a new job.
Another day, more shameful hospital ED overcrowding
Pictures of a packed Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department have emerged, highlighting yet more chronic overcrowding in metro hospitals.
Mount Gambier Private Hospital put in administration
The Limestone Coast’s only private hospital has gone into voluntary administration, putting its long-term future in doubt amid a funding crisis.
No beds available: Major incident at RAH, QEH
Internal emergencies have been declared at two major hospitals as more than half their EDs’ capacity are taken up with patients waiting for beds.
Top doc slams SA Health ‘cult of abuse and bullying’
An eminent doctor says the “disastrous bungling” of SA Health has led to a dysfunctional culture of bullying that’s driving talented clinicians to leave our state.
Adelaide hospital parking fees now ‘greater than Sydney’
Parking fees have risen at public hospitals once again – and it’s now more expensive to park at some Adelaide hospitals than those in Sydney. See the table.
Patient died after ‘two-hour ambulance wait’
A man was left lying on the floor of his Norwood home for two hours, gradually losing consciousness, while half of all metropolitan ambulances were ramped, an inquest has heard.
Minister ‘sidelined’ as QEH shifts services, inquiry told
SA’s metro hospital system has been savaged at a parliamentary committee, with claims the Minister has been “sidelined” and the QEH to lose gynaecology.
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