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The Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department was last night crammed with nearly double the number of patients than it has beds for, the doctors’ union says, leaving clinicians “broken” and “traumatised”.
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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.
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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.
