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.”
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
‘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.
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Woman’s agonising wait for ambulance hours before death
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Triple-0 nightmare: Thousands call for ambulance but sent a cab
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‘Shameful failures’: Huge ban for disgraced aged care nursing chief
A former nursing chief at the disgraced Oakden aged care home – which was once slammed as run like “a zoo” by “manipulative” and “incompetent” staff – has learned his fate.
Vax sacked: SA Health sticks to mandate amid ramping crisis
As hospitals struggle and ambulances ramp, SA Health has sacked hundreds of staff over vaccine mandates – and is sticking to the policy.
Key SA Health boss quits suddenly
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‘Whitewash’: Top doc lashes ramping review findings
The doctor whose bombshell claims sparked a review into patient priority in hospitals claims its findings are a political whitewash and the reviewers need a “reality check”.
No political pressure over hospital ramping, review finds
A much-anticipated independent review into hospital emergency departments has rejected claims some patients are wrongly given priority to improve ramping statistics.
Eddie’s ‘broken’ family blames Mali for absent ambo tragedy
The family of a man who died during an agonising 10-hour wait for an ambulance says the buck stops with the Premier after his promise to fix ramping.
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