Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, the Premier is called out for snubbing the state’s private pathology providers, while Labor continues to trade barbs with its outspoken preselection candidate – and has Steven Marshall adopted a new football team?
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UPDATED: Adelaide COVID-testing sites have been inundated this morning, with three-hour waits and long traffic queues, as Victoria prepares to begin a seven-day statewide lockdown in an effort contain a growing outbreak sparked by a leak from an Adelaide medi-hotel.
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Bungled SA Health COVID-19 test notifications were sent to the wrong recipients after a delivery platform with a private health technology firm was put on ice – with SA Pathology conceding the error lies instead with its in-house replacement system.
A spat between the Marshall Government and the state’s largest private pathology firm has escalated dramatically, with a new move to set up a state-run “rapid response” team to test and monitor aged care facilities dubbed a waste of taxpayers’ money – because Clinpath is already under contract to deliver “exactly the same thing”.
EXCLUSIVE | A major private pathology company lashed the Marshall Government’s “bewildering” lack of response after repeated offers to assist South Australia’s coronavirus testing regime were met with weeks of silence, InDaily can reveal.
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.
