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A regional hospital operated for two days over Easter “without a single doctor”, with the nurses union declaring the situation “a new low for healthcare in this state”.
Opinion
A Productivity Commission report into Australia’s $115 billion a year health system provides a mass of data but raises many questions about spending, priorities and accountability, argue Stephen Duckett and Anika Stobart.
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Slowing the spread of coronavirus gives intensive care units precious time to prepare for the peak, explains Stephen Duckett, Anika Stobart and Will Mackey.
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.
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.
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.
