"Care will be provided at a lower cost to previous facility based beds and may increasingly be provided by the non-government sector," the contract says. Photo: InDaily

News

Revealed: Govt plan for private system to cut public hospital bed demand

The Marshall Government outlined plans to replace reliance on public hospital beds with a new “industrialised” private health sector in a consultancy contract it quietly awarded early this year.

Local

Never mind the ramping, here's the hospital bed cuts

Days after revealing that ramping outside Adelaide public hospitals had reached a record high 2303 hours in September, the State Government is closing 32 beds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and 16 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Local

A lost map, an ‘early’ discharge and a tragic death in Adelaide’s south

An Adelaide public health facility that discharged a young man three days before he killed himself also misplaced a suicide note and a map, which his mother believes could have saved his life.

Local

Nurses withdraw threat to elective surgery

South Australian nurses have withdrawn threats to halt some elective or non-urgent surgery in Adelaide’s major public hospitals in a dispute about overcrowding.

Opinion

How SA's hospital system lost sight of patient care

Patient care no longer appears to be the prime consideration in the running of South Australia’s public hospital system. Warren Jones explains how that happened and how it can be fixed.