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Thursday, September 20

Libs promise mental health aged care facility for Repat

The Liberal Party has promised to set up mental health facilities for older South Australians in several locations across Adelaide, starting at the Repat.

Repat closure puts future health workforce at risk: senior doctors

The impending closure of the Repatriation General Hospital risks tainting the quality of South Australia’s future medical workforce and discouraging international students from studying here, senior Flinders Medical Centre doctors say.

The Repatriation General Hospital.

Training and research a casualty of Repat closure

The Government’s Transforming Health process has ignored the teaching, training and research which will be disrupted, eroded or lost when the Repat closes, writes Professor Warren Jones.

Transforming Health: the questions that need answers

It is now eight months since the release of the Transforming Health (TH) proposals for a massive overhaul of our health system. Since then, we have been given little information about how these proposed changes, particularly, the closure of the Repat, will be accomplished and accommodated within the existing hospital system.