RAT alert as Covid cases spike for third week running
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.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
81yo nan forced to wait two hours for ambo on pokie room floor
An 81-year-old grandma who fell in a CBD hotel had to wait more than two hours for an ambulance, with the hotel owner calling 000 three times.
Experts reveal reason for surge in gastro cases
SA is in the grip of an alarming spike in gastro cases, with a top doctor warning the very young and old are most at risk.
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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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.
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.
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