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Emergency doctors in the Royal Adelaide Hospital say they are now working in “disaster” mode to treat patients in an overwhelmed system, as they begin industrial action today to highlight the crisis.
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Members of the state’s doctors’ union will today commence a T-shirt protest drawing attention to hospital overcrowding – despite a State Government bid to stop the industrial action in the employment tribunal.
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Health Minister Chris Picton is investigating whether he can “squeeze any more capacity” out of the private system and hospitals on the outskirts of Adelaide amid record levels of bed-block at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
South Australian ambulance response times were the worst on record this financial year with only 61 per cent of urgent life-threatening callouts seen on time, new figures show, as the government revealed that ambulances spent 3412 hours ramped outside hospitals in May.
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.
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”.
