AMA calls for mental health spending boost in budget

A “significant” funding boost to mental health services is needed to alleviate the “crisis” in SA’s mental health system, according to the Australian Medical Association, which is pleading with the State Government to address issues in EDs, country hospitals and palliative care.

SA's new quarantine system to be tested tomorrow as overseas flights prepare landing

UPDATED: Plane-loads of returning Australians arriving in Adelaide this week will be forced to quarantine at a temporary medi-hotel facility if they test positive for COVID-19, despite past state government assurances of a stand-alone site in the wake of the Parafield cluster.

Jay Weatherill concedes some doctors have felt disrespected during Transforming Health - but argues others deserved criticism for putting their interests ahead of patients'. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

We disrespected doctors during Transforming Health, Jay concedes

The State Government has acknowledged that clinicians felt disrespected during the Transforming Health process, as it moves to mend relations with doctors ahead of next year’s election.