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SA Health has commissioned consultants to evaluate the biggest hospital system overhaul in the state’s history. But one conclusion is already inescapable: Transforming Health has fractured the vital relationship between SA’s doctors and the bureaucrats who employ them.
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SA Health moves alleged bullies around the organisation rather than investigating them, its recruitment processes are tarnished by conflicts of interest and employees have been "broken" by “unsustainable” workloads, mental health workers have told an internal review.
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The head of SA Health has conceded the $2.3 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital’s outpatient facilities are inadequate to meet expected demand, as the department scrambles to figure out how to cater for a shortfall of almost 40,000 patient appointments a year.
A senior health bureaucrat has directly contradicted the Premier over allegedly dangerous understaffing at the condemned Oakden Older Person’s Mental Health Service.
A report presented to the State Government a decade before the release of the Oakden report last month warned that mental health services for older people were the most understaffed and underdeveloped in the state.
A new clinical lead for the Older Person’s Mental Health Service will begin work next week, SA Health says, as questions multiply over the length of time it took for complaints about Oakden to be addressed.
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