Staff streamlining, collection centre closures and shifting costs to clients are among a raft of measures detailed on a “hit list” of SA Pathology budget savings.
The State Government has granted the embattled SA Pathology one year to prove it can rein in spending before it embarks on privatising the service, with 200 jobs and 10 centres in the cost-cutting firing line.
UPDATED | Dr Glenn Edwards has announced he is quitting as executive director of SA Pathology, just days before the expected release of a major report that’s likely to dictate the future of the agency.
A long-running Adelaide marketing and document processing company has been placed under voluntary administration after it lost an SA Health contract to an interstate company.