SA Covid hospitalisations on the rise
More South Australians are being treated in hospital for Covid as a new wave of the virus continues to grip the state.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
More South Australians are being treated in hospital for Covid as a new wave of the virus continues to grip the state.
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.
Experts say digital technologies can cure both patients and our overloaded hospital system. Watch a full replay of the panel discussion on the future of SA’s health network.
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.
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