Baby ‘thrown away like rubbish’: Parents’ anguish at body-swap bungle
First their miscarried baby was dumped in a “bucket” by hospital staff. Then the wrong body was sent to a funeral home. And no one bothered to inform the parents.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Cremations overtake burials as funeral costs bite
South Australians are choosing cremation over burying their dead relatives as the cost of living crisis hits funerals, amid a surge of people dying.
Patient records exposed, deleted in health data hack
SA Health said patient names, numbers and records were compromised when an unknown person or group gained an encryption key, the health minister says.
Govt calls in private ambulances to fix ramping crisis
The state government will look for private ambulances to transfer some patients under part of its plan to “fix” ramping.
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Labor gambling on short public health memory
Labor risks ghosts from the past overwhelming its ambulance ramping campaign – and is losing focus on its narrative of creating jobs, Paul Starick writes.
Price tag revealed for new WCH, and ‘fix’ for ramping
The cost of the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital has finally been revealed – as the state budget reveals the opening date has blown out again.
$160m for system on brink of collapse
More than $160m – including a $20m crisis centre in Adelaide’s north – will go to mental health in SA, which is struggling under the weight of Covid.
Analysis: Treasurer’s spend now, pay later budget
The state credit card is reaching its limit as Treasurer Rob Lucas borrows big ahead of next March’s election. Paul Starick analyses his last budget.
SA mental health ED waits among worst in nation
A new report shows one in ten mental health patients waited more than 27 hours in SA public EDs before being admitted.
Not big enough, baby: Huge expansion for new WCH
Plans for the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital are set to be expanded to create a far bigger emergency department after a clinician backlash.
Mental health ‘third wave’ needs a budget lifebuoy
The mental health effects of Covid are still coming, experts say, and the state government must throw significant dollars at a broken system on June 22 to keep it afloat.
New alert: Potential patient surge could flood EDs
A Health Network staff bulletin warns of huge demand challenges ahead of the long weekend – just days after a ‘major incident alert’ at the RAH.
Nine new treatment ‘pods’ to stem WCH emergency crisis
The Women’s and Children’s Hospital will open nine new ‘overflow’ treatment areas in a bid to handle demand in its overstretched paediatric emergency department.
Marshall defends hospital ‘disaster’ as patients overflow
The Premier has blamed a “major incident alert” declared at the RAH on a patient “surge”. Non-urgent elective surgery is being rescheduled as staff struggle to cope.
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