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UPDATED | Intensive care rooms are being used for storage, research and even as a set for a film crew, while urgent cancer surgeries are being cancelled due to a “lack of operating theatres and ICU beds” – with medical staff warned against publicly voicing concerns, an emergency surgeon claims.
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South Australia’s Chief Psychiatrist has conducted a review into a ward at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after concerns were raised by doctors about the care of patients.
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EXCLUSIVE | The Marshall Government’s systemic overhaul of the troubled Central Adelaide Local Health Network has been suspended and its $20 million contract with administrators KordaMentha put on ice indefinitely as authorities grapple with SA’s coronavirus response, InDaily can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE | More than half the people who arrived at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s emergency department last year waited four hours or more for admission, new SA Health data shows.
Treasurer Rob Lucas has thrown Labor a curveball on day one of budget estimates hearings, revealing an independent audit of the state’s largest health network predicts a budget blowout of more than $300 million in the current financial year – but he is refusing to release the report.
The State Government is locked in a legal dispute with the facility manager of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, which today revealed it is facing losses of more than $90 million over the life of its current contract.
EXCLUSIVE: An unexplained spike in infections from hip and knee surgery at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital has caused more than two dozen procedures to be cancelled as SA Health scrambles to identify the cause.
