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An inquiry into the alleged neglect of a vulnerable man at a State Government-run Adelaide care facility is likely to take six months, with the investigator to then decide if it’s “in the public interest” to openly release the findings.
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EXCLUSIVE: An investigation has been launched after a vulnerable man was rushed to hospital from a government-run Adelaide care facility in a state of “neglect”.
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Dozens of patients were still waiting for a bed in the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s emergency department this morning, despite hospital management taking the “very unusual” step of declaring an internal “major emergency” yesterday to try to clear the backlog.
The overcrowding crisis in Adelaide’s hospitals has deepened, with clinicians reporting an “unprecedented” number of patients in emergency departments this morning and multiple mental health patients waiting more than 60 hours for a bed.
SA Parliament’s Lower House has voted to change its standing orders to allow MPs to take up to 20 weeks of maternity leave and to breast or bottle feed their babies in the chamber, to bring the 160-year-old institution up to speed with “modern workplace expectations”.
The state’s top psychiatrist has conducted an investigation into South Australia’s ambulance ramping crisis and its impact on mental health patients – but his findings are being kept secret more than six months after his report was finalised.
Paramedics say they’ve been “abandoned” by the Health Minister and are calling on him to “stand up to” the Treasurer to demand more money to fix ramping, after yet another day of ambulances and patients being forced into lengthy waits outside hospital emergency departments.
