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Psychiatrists at an under-pressure public mental health service in Adelaide’s south declared no confidence in their clinical director earlier this year and told the head of SA Health about their decision, according to correspondence obtained by InDaily.
Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, a third contender emerges for the Lord Mayorship, the State Government appoints an economist with established pro-genetically modified crop views to review the state’s ban, and we offer a sneak peek inside SA Health’s media handling of its own minister.
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An SA Health manager has congratulated colleagues on failing to fill vacant positions in a southern area mental health service which has been described as being in crisis due to staff shortages.
South Australia needs more than 200 new beds to treat dementia patients in the wake of the Oakden scandal, says Minister for Health and Wellbeing Stephen Wade.
SA Health managers have asked social workers who haven’t finished training in youth mental health to treat child patients, unions claim, as an apparent workload crisis in southern Adelaide deepens.
The new CEO of SA Health says a third or more of the patients in South Australia’s hospitals probably don’t need to be there, vowing to “rebalance” health funding to have more people treated at home.
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