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Crisis talks will be held today between Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency doctors, their union and the Health Minister to discuss solutions to ongoing overcrowding pressures.
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Emergency doctors in the Royal Adelaide Hospital say they are now working in “disaster” mode to treat patients in an overwhelmed system, as they begin industrial action today to highlight the crisis.
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Lyell McEwin Hospital doctors claim management is stonewalling requests to urgently recruit more staff after emergency department presentations rose by at least 25 per cent in six years.
Doctors are “confused” about conflicting modelling showing the estimated spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisation rates once South Australia opens its borders, saying Government-commissioned data released today appears to contradict SA Health estimates presented to them last week.
Emergency doctors at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital say a chronic lack of resourcing is putting children’s lives at risk and urgent action must be taken before “the system fails completely”.
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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