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.
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
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.
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.
As Covid cases shoot up in South Australia, advocates for the elderly have warned against rushing into lockdowns of aged care homes.
A review of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital cochlear implant scandal has revealed more people have possibly been caught up in the bungle, dating back to the early 1990s.
Labor risks ghosts from the past overwhelming its ambulance ramping campaign – and is losing focus on its narrative of creating jobs, Paul Starick writes.
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.
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.
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.
A new report shows one in ten mental health patients waited more than 27 hours in SA public EDs before being admitted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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