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Confusion surrounds the future of gynaecological care for women in Adelaide’s west, with specialists “kept in the dark” about whether services will be moved from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, a parliamentary committee has been told.
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The new Women’s and Children’s Hospital will have just one extra overnight paediatric bed to admit sick children, according to revised plans.
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EXCLUSIVE | SafeWork SA has been asked to investigate conditions inside the Royal Adelaide Hospital after snap inspections of the crowded emergency department discovered “clinical risk”, distressed staff and patients, and clinicians at “breaking point”, confidential documents obtained by InDaily reveal.
Junior doctors in South Australia are “strongly considering” launching a class action against SA Health for systemic “wage theft” over “unpaid overtime”, following similar legal moves interstate.
The South Australian nurses’ union has accused the Health Minister of failing to take “leadership” of the state’s struggling health system, and warns of “disastrous consequences” if he doesn’t take immediate action.
South Australian doctors are being directed by hospital administrators to discharge patients before they are clinically ready and data is being manipulated to make wait lists look better than they are, a parliamentary committee has been told.
South Australia’s Chief Psychiatrist has conducted a review into a ward at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after concerns were raised by doctors about the care of patients.
