Bombshell moves as top SA Health ED bosses quit
Key emergency department doctors have stood down from leadership roles at the RAH and Flinders Medical Centre, as ambulance ramping continues to spiral out of control.
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Coverage of the South Australian health system, including hospital overcrowding, ambulance ramping and mental health treatment.
$750,000 ambus goes from ‘white elephant’ to white knight
It created a stir when unveiled but the $750,000, 12-patient “ambus” quickly faded from public attention. Despite initial doubts, officials now say it’s a “valuable asset”.
Breakthrough AI aims to cut down Adelaide ramping nightmare
The homegrown “Adelaide Score” using AI to speed up patient discharge has proved successful – and now the Adelaide name could be used to cut ramping in hospitals worldwide.
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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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.
Hospitals cancel more elective surgeries
Two of Adelaide’s top hospitals are cancelling more elective surgeries – with a postponement order from RAH and QEH being extended.
Patients forced to sleep in corridors as hospital crisis worsens
One of the state’s biggest hospitals has set up beds in corridors as it continues to struggle with overcrowding.
Mali’s honeymoon is long over, but Speirs’ challenges are even greater
Premier Peter Malinauskas has dropped from his stratospheric standing during the 2022 election campaign. But, as Paul Starick writes, David Speirs’ challenges are greater.
‘Depraved’ RAH nurse banned after exposing genitalia at work
A Royal Adelaide Hospital nurse has been banned for five years after several months of “highly repugnant” behaviour, a tribunal has ruled.
‘Demoralising’: Doctors, patients hold extreme fears for $500m cancer unit
Revelations a world-leading cancer-fighting facility set for Adelaide is at serious threat of collapse is “demoralising” for doctors, patients and families, medical experts say.
Crisis talks: SAHMRI proton beam cancer centre ‘at significant risk’
A $500m city facility promising the southern hemisphere’s first cancer-zapping proton beam therapy has been smashed by cost blowouts and delays that threaten the whole project.
‘Despicable’: Hospital gave me Covid and then billed us $1113 for it
Public hospitals are free unless a doctor deems you to be a “nursing home type patient” – as Fred and Beryl Coleman, aged 90 and 80, discovered to their great cost.
New hospital boss revealed in major SA Health appointment
The new CEO of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Network has been announced, five months after the abrupt resignation of the old head.
Date confirmed for battle for Marshall’s seat
About 27,000 voters in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs will go to the polls to replace former premier Steven Marshall in the state’s most marginal seat. Find out when.
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