ANMF

Thursday, August 06

Revealed: Govt plan for private system to cut public hospital bed demand

The Marshall Government outlined plans to replace reliance on public hospital beds with a new “industrialised” private health sector in a consultancy contract it quietly awarded early this year.

Southern Adelaide mental health services 'overloaded' and 'unsafe'

SA Health managers have asked social workers who haven’t finished training in youth mental health to treat child patients, unions claim, as an apparent workload crisis in southern Adelaide deepens.

SA-Best Leader Nick Xenophon. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

SA-Best wants EPAS investigated as Xenophon releases health policies

Nick Xenophon is calling for an immediate pause and investigation into the controversial electronic health records system EPAS, among a series of brief SA-Best health policy proposals released this morning.

SA Health 'moves bullies from unit to unit', workers allege

SA Health moves alleged bullies around the organisation rather than investigating them, its recruitment processes are tarnished by conflicts of interest and employees have been “broken” by “unsustainable” workloads, mental health workers have told an internal review.