'Our patients deserve better': More ED doctors get shirty over conditions

EXCLUSIVE: Emergency doctors at the Lyell McEwin Hospital have launched their own industrial action about overcrowding and a lack of staffing, donning protest T-shirts at work like their Royal Adelaide Hospital counterparts.

Alarm sounds over emergency department staff shortages

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.

Patients waiting outside the Lyell McEwin Hospital on Sunday night. Photo: supplied

'Bandaid solution': Lyell McEwin Hospital 'fix' under fire

Patients at the Lyell McEwin Hospital will still need to be triaged outside on “most days” over winter despite a pledge to get them out of the cold, according to a senior clinician in the emergency department who says there is simply not enough room inside.

'No plan' for overflow as COVID chokes emergency wards

Undiagnosed COVID patients are being left sitting in hospital waiting rooms with admitted cases likely to spill across metropolitan hospitals within days and “no plan” to deal with surging demand, an emergency doctor has warned.

Hospital patients under guard as govt misses key mental health target

Up to 10 patients a day who may have “committed violent crimes” are being turned away from the state’s specialist forensic psychiatric facility due to a lack of beds – and are being kept under guard in emergency departments and hospital wards.

Lyell McEwin swaps hard shackles for soft after Chief Psychiatrist criticism

The Lyell McEwin Hospital has replaced “hard” shackles with “soft” to restrain patients in line with new standards and following findings by the Chief Psychiatrist of “under-reporting” of the controversial practice.