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' union head Elizabeth Dabars Photo: file

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South Australian nurses have withdrawn threats to halt some elective or non-urgent surgery in Adelaide’s major public hospitals in a dispute about overcrowding.

Xenophon graded an "F" in nurses' union scorecard

Nick Xenophon’s SA Best party has been ranked last in the nurses union’s assessment of the political parties’ health policies.

SA Nurses threaten to halt Transforming Health

UPDATED: Nurses in every major public hospital across South Australia will take industrial action later this month, threatening to stop the progress of the Government’s Transforming Health hospital reforms if their demands are not met.