Adelaide’s getting a brand new hospital
The opening of the new facility near the CBD is tipped to ease pressure on the state’s stressed health system.
SA Health
Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
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.
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.
Adelaide hospital so full it’s ‘like managing a disaster’: Union
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.
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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.
Damage bill is denting ambos’ campaign, government warns
Dented bonnets and damage from protest slogans will result in several ambulances taken off the road for repair work, the government says.
Ambos vote for deal to get 74 more workers
Ambos will accept a deal paving the way for 74 more paramedics following a long dispute with the State Government – but they say more industrial action will follow “when the need arises”.
Covid test site times extended after huge queues
SA Covid-19 testing sites will operate for longer to cope with the increasing demand – the Victoria Park one will run 24 hours a day.
The health system is broken but don’t blame nurses and doctors
I saw doctors and nurses run off their feet while I recovered from a life-threatening condition. They’re under enormous pressure but it isn’t their fault.
SA Health staff Twitter rebellion sparks stern warning
Staff were quick to hijack a top SA Health boss’s social media campaign but now she’s issued a blunt internal message in return.
How to fix a constant emergency overload
Health Minister Stephen Wade will lead a combined push by the states for more federal money for hospitals clogged with NDIS patients.
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