Record ramping … but you can now charge your car while you wait
As SA Health wrestles with record ramping, the RAH’s management has installed six EV charging stations adjacent the ED so people can charge their cars while they wait.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
SA babies most at risk as whooping cough cases explode
Parents have been issued a stark warning after a huge ten-fold surge in cases of potentially deadly whooping cough in South Australia.
Radical plan to blitz surgery wait times as ramping hits grim milestone
With patients waiting up to six years to see a public hospital specialist, and new horror ramping figures, SA Health is planning to use the private sector in a bold bid to cut wait times.
First look at $51m bid to tackle ramping at QEH
Concrete is being poured on a $51m unit opposite the QEH that’s part of the state government’s push to free up emergency department beds.
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Elective surgeries cancelled as ramping hours hit peak levels
Hours lost to ramping since Labor was elected will soon hit the 100,000 mark as elective surgery are cancelled.
Forever unknown: SA’s hospital Covid death toll a mystery
Just how many people went to SA hospitals for medical help, then caught Covid and died, will never be known according to SA Health.
‘Check your secret messages’: Creepy doc’s wild claims for nude photos
An Adelaide doctor who sent medical students explicit photos and bought one a massager tried to argue his intentions were innocent. Read his bizarre excuses.
‘Wish to die at home’: Palliative care overhaul aims to honour patients’ wishes
Ambulance officers could soon be empowered to play a bigger role in palliative care that aims to honour patients’ wishes.
Adelaide’s new WCH five-star design revealed in aerial images
The new $3.2bn Women’s and Children’s Hospital has been redesigned after staff concerns about layout – see how it will look.
82-year-old woman ramped in excruciating pain for three hours
An elderly woman has spoken out after being ramped for more than three hours in terrible pain after a bus accident in the CBD.
Mum’s mega compo payout over major hospital’s life-altering error
An Adelaide mum has won a seven-figure compensation payout after a years-long fight over an error that cost her critical time to fix a dangerous condition.
Measles outbreak now at five cases
The state’s measles outbreak that started with an infant now stands at five. See the full list of exposure sites visited by earlier cases.
SA measles alert as another case diagnosed
A second measles case has been diagnosed in Adelaide in less than a fortnight, and SA Health is urging possible contacts to be alert to symptoms. See the list of places and dates visited by the cases.
Horror spike in flu cases as EDs overflow
As hospitals yet again struggle to cope, the latest flu count shows cases are double what they were at the same time last year.
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