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The Malinauskas Government says it will push to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios across state hospitals during its first term in government, as the Premier outlined recruitment targets to fulfill his party’s election pledges on health.
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Childhood cancer patients are having treatment postponed and safety is being put at risk “every day” because of “chronic” understaffing at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, senior nurses have told a parliamentary committee in damning secret evidence now made public.
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Nurses have launched action in the South Australian Employment Tribunal in a bid to improve staffing levels they say are creating “dangerous conditions” at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital emergency department.
SA Health has confirmed the existence of an “internal working document” outlining “various opportunities” for savings identified by consultant firm KordaMentha but says “no decisions have been made”.
The State Government will decide within months whether to seek to enforce provisions that allow for forced redundancies of public servants deemed surplus to requirements.
Public hospital nurses are set to take stop-work action from the end of the month as their union pushes for higher pay and staffing levels.
