Outsourcing no solution to Adelaide's hospital bed crisis

With the stress on Adelaide’s overloaded public hospital system showing no sign of abating, Warren Jones explains what the State Government must do to fix a system in critical condition.

"It won't be the Repat": New beds but Govt won't rush precinct plan

Restoring the defunct Repatriation General Hospital is “never going to be possible”, Health Minister Stephen Wade said today, as he announced the opening of 20 new beds on the site as a precursor to a masterplan for a transformed health precinct.

The Repatriation General Hospital. Photo: InDaily

End of the line for Repat

The final patients from Adelaide’s Repatriation General Hospital will be moved today ahead of the closure of the facility.

How Bob's final days inspired Lyn Such's new crusade

Lyn Such is determined to step up her one-woman campaign against what she says is a dearth of palliative care services in the south under Transforming Health. But the widow of former veteran Independent MP Bob Such says she hasn’t turned her mind to whether she will have a tilt at his old seat.

E-health blamed for Repat waiting list blowout

Patients at a Repatriation General Hospital clinic now wait up to nine months longer than they did before the installation of the State Government’s e-health records system, a senior doctor says.