'The system is broken': Nurses' damning evidence about WCH care

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.

'Grave concerns': SA nurses working double shifts, unpaid overtime

Nearly three in four South Australian nurses report working unpaid overtime and a quarter work double shifts, a new survey shows, amid claims many are on “auto-pilot” while treating patients.

WCH nurses launch action over 'dangerous' staffing conditions

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 confirms 'internal document' after hospital job cuts claims

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”.

Lucas to consider forced redundancies

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.

Nurses plan industrial action over pay and staffing

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.

Nurses withdraw threat to elective surgery

South Australian nurses have withdrawn threats to halt some elective or non-urgent surgery in Adelaide’s major public hospitals in a dispute about overcrowding.

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