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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.
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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.
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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.
EXCLUSIVE | More than half the people who arrived at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s emergency department last year waited four hours or more for admission, new SA Health data shows.
The State Government has begun offering redundancy packages to staff at Adelaide’s central hospitals in what the Opposition describes as a “wave of job cuts” for doctors and nurses.
UPDATED | Adelaide’s central health network will be overhauled under a dramatic plan that will place external auditors in key positions of power, in a bid to save $276 million over three years, the State Government has announced.
