Soaring wait times blow out for ‘urgent’ cases at hospital EDs
Patients triaged as “urgent” are waiting longer to be seen at public hospital EDs, an AMA report shows.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
Relief doctor walks out of ‘dangerous’ SA hospital
A relief doctor saw one patient at a regional SA hospital and walked out an hour into her four-day shift, claiming it was “dangerous” – now she’s been sanctioned.
Security furious as SA Health owes guards years of back pay
As hospital staff increasingly call for help dealing with violent and aggressive people, The Advertiser can reveal hospital security guards are owed years of back pay.
Code Black calls skyrocket as petrified health workers struggle
Code Black calls for help from hospital staff facing intimidation, verbal threats and physicals assaults are on the rise with one regional area seeing them rise from seven to 159 in three years.
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Leaked report exposes ‘major concerns’ over landmark cancer unit
An embattled US company awarded a lucrative taxpayer contract to create a world-leading Adelaide cancer centre had a “clinically unproven” system, a leaked official assessment warned.
‘Disgraceful’: Code yellow to end – but surgeries stay scrapped
SA Health will end its internal code yellow emergency this month – but documents show its measures will continue, under new names.
Ramping reaches ridiculous new levels as paramedics ‘left to rot’
Time lost to ambulance ramping has smashed the 5000-hour mark for the first time, as there appears no end in sight for the ongoing saga gripping our health system.
SA Health silent on bombshell claims about suspended staff
SA Health is neither confirming nor denying bombshell whistleblower claims about one of its key agencies, issuing a terse “no comment.”
‘I’m going blind’: Goers blasts SA Health over surgery cancellation
Slowly going blind in one eye, Peter Goers waited patiently for 18 months for cataract surgery in our public health system. When the day arrived, the surgery was cancelled.
Starick: Mali shovels your billions into a bottomless pit
Labor has ploughed $7.1bn into fixing ramping but has the money been wasted, asks Paul Starick.
820 elective surgeries cancelled as code yellow hits two months
Hundreds of elective surgeries have been cancelled as SA Health’s code yellow drags on for two months with no end in sight.
‘It’s the right time’: SA Health makes big Covid call
Years after interstate health services dropped mandatory Covid vaccination for staff, SA Health has dropped the policy which saw hundreds of staff sacked for refusing the jab.
Shot in the arm for sick health system as nurse placements boom
A new health plan will see thousands of student nurses funded for placements in primary health care settings such as schools, as Medicare rebates for care by nurse practitioners are boosted.
Revealed: $20m hospital ‘crisis’ saviour for Adelaide
Plans have been revealed for a “crisis” centre in Adelaide’s north aimed at reducing huge pressure on the hospital system.
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