Psychiatric patients still sharing rooms despite coroner warning

Psychiatric patients are still sharing rooms in South Australian public hospital wards, six months after the Coroner’s Court called for the practice to be banned and seven years after a man was killed by his mentally-ill roommate.

'Certain inevitability' psychiatric patient would be killed

South Australian health authorities have been put “on notice” by the Deputy State Coroner, who is calling for room-sharing to be banned in all state public hospital psychiatric wards following the killing of a man at Noarlunga Hospital.

Anthony Schapel

Psychiatric patients still sharing rooms despite coroner warning

'Certain inevitability' psychiatric patient would be killed