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Crisis talks will be held today between Royal Adelaide Hospital emergency doctors, their union and the Health Minister to discuss solutions to ongoing overcrowding pressures.
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Emergency doctors in the Royal Adelaide Hospital say they are now working in “disaster” mode to treat patients in an overwhelmed system, as they begin industrial action today to highlight the crisis.
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Lyell McEwin Hospital doctors claim management is stonewalling requests to urgently recruit more staff after emergency department presentations rose by at least 25 per cent in six years.
Adelaide’s public hospitals continue to experience severe emergency department overcrowding and subsequent ramping, the paramedics union says, with reports of patients waiting outside hospitals for more than three hours.
A major independent review into the state’s emergency rescue and retrieval service MedSTAR has revealed long-standing “cultural issues”, leadership problems and staff behaviour concerns, as well as highlighting issues with fatigue.
Undiagnosed COVID patients are being left sitting in hospital waiting rooms with admitted cases likely to spill across metropolitan hospitals within days and “no plan” to deal with surging demand, an emergency doctor has warned.
