Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Code Black calls for help from hospital staff facing intimidation, verbal threats and physicals assaults are on the rise with one regional area seeing them rise from seven to 159 in three years.
Automatic Special Leave for SA Health staff who test positive to Covid-19 is being reassessed, with plans for such workers no longer be directed to stay home from work unless they are ill.
Forging prescriptions, lying on resumes and impersonating a RAH nurse, these medical professionals had their registrations canned or restricted. Some of them weren’t even qualified.
A planned updated policy on ambulance transfers at EDs has alarmed clinicians who fear it will increase pressure to unload ambulance patients into already-clogged hospitals.
Parents have been issued a stark warning after a huge ten-fold surge in cases of potentially deadly whooping cough in South Australia.
With patients waiting up to six years to see a public hospital specialist, and new horror ramping figures, SA Health is planning to use the private sector in a bold bid to cut wait times.
Concrete is being poured on a $51m unit opposite the QEH that’s part of the state government’s push to free up emergency department beds.
It was the promise that propelled Peter Malinauskas to the Premier’s office, but more than two years on there are ominous signs for SA’s stressed hospitals.
As the health system buckles under near-relentless pressure a new order to cancel non-urgent elective surgery has been issued, as the $2.7bn RAH faces state and federal safety inspections.
More than 20 triple-0 callmakers faced lengthy delays for paramedics on Wednesday, prompting fears South Australians will unnecessarily die as a result of the state’s spiralling health crisis.
As ramping rocketed in SA, an elderly man was left waiting more than five hours for help – and when it finally arrived it was too late to save his life.
SA Health released a tender on expressing interest in transforming a “ready-made” facility into a makeshift hospital with 25 beds to ease ramping pressures across Adelaide.
The state’s ambulance union says SA Health is not enforcing its own policy to cut hospital ramping rates.
An embattled US company awarded a lucrative taxpayer contract to create a world-leading Adelaide cancer centre had a “clinically unproven” system, a leaked official assessment warned.
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