Health Minister Stephen Wade briefs media on the audit report today. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

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Govt unveils "dramatic" $276m health turnaround plan

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.

Local

Health network's external staff costs blow out by $22m

The Adelaide central health network’s spending on external contractors – especially nurses – in the 2018 financial year was more than double its budget, InDaily can reveal.

Local

New RAH failure kicked off mental health wait crisis

The current emergency department waiting times crisis for mental health patients in South Australia started with the closure of Oakden and the opening of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, new data shows.

Opinion

Modbury Hospital: neglected and now forgotten?

The State Government needs to act quickly to fulfil its election promises to restore services to Modbury Hospital, in the interests of patient safety, writes Warren Jones.

Local

A lost map, an ‘early’ discharge and a tragic death in Adelaide’s south

An Adelaide public health facility that discharged a young man three days before he killed himself also misplaced a suicide note and a map, which his mother believes could have saved his life.