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The independent disability watchdog has revealed it doesn’t have the power to fully investigate the circumstances around the alleged neglect of a man in a State Government-run facility, who remains in hospital more than a month after paramedics were called in.
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EXCLUSIVE: An investigation has been launched after a vulnerable man was rushed to hospital from a government-run Adelaide care facility in a state of “neglect”.
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One woman’s recent experience inside the Royal Adelaide Hospital reveals the disturbing reality of an overstretched, underprepared public health system trying to cope with patients in the grip of mental health crisis. Warning: this story may be distressing for some readers.
EXCLUSIVE | SafeWork SA has been asked to investigate conditions inside the Royal Adelaide Hospital after snap inspections of the crowded emergency department discovered “clinical risk”, distressed staff and patients, and clinicians at “breaking point”, confidential documents obtained by InDaily reveal.
EXCLUSIVE | A group of 28 “angry and frustrated” emergency specialist doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital has written to SA Health lamenting an ongoing lack of services and treatment delays for mental health patients, suggesting a Royal Commission might be the only way to fix the broken system.
UPDATED | There are two new confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Australia – including the infant child of a woman who returned a positive test yesterday – as the Federal Government today extended its travel ban and a new testing clinic opened at the RAH.
SA Health is seeking a private operator for an urgent mental health care centre to divert patients away from the Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency department.
