SA Health boss caught up in Hindley St stabbing
One of the state’s most senior bureaucrats has given first aid to a young woman moments after she was stabbed on a busy CBD street during evening rush hour.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
One of the state’s most senior bureaucrats has given first aid to a young woman moments after she was stabbed on a busy CBD street during evening rush hour.
Chronic ramping blew out waiting times by 10 hours at the Lyell McEwin hospital on Monday, with the doctors’ union calling it closer to a disaster than a health service.
Mandatory face masks have returned in certain settings in South Australia as a new Covid wave that has caused a spike in cases grips the state.
A 50 per cent rise in covid cases from last week has sparked new warnings for people to check their home test kits — and to plan for possible shortages.
Paramedics are now sending taxis to hundreds of people who call triple-0 for an ambulance after deciding their condition isn’t serious enough.
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.
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.
Pictures of a packed Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department have emerged, highlighting yet more chronic overcrowding in metro hospitals.
The Limestone Coast’s only private hospital has gone into voluntary administration, putting its long-term future in doubt amid a funding crisis.
Internal emergencies have been declared at two major hospitals as more than half their EDs’ capacity are taken up with patients waiting for beds.
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.
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.
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.
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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