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 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.
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.
EXCLUSIVE | A group of 28 “angry and frustrated” emergency specialist doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital has written to SA Health lamenting an ongoing lack of services and treatment delays for mental health patients, suggesting a Royal Commission might be the only way to fix the broken system.