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South Australia’s Chief Psychiatrist has conducted a review into a ward at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after concerns were raised by doctors about the care of patients.
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A lack of cardiac surgery resources at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital has contributed to the deaths of four babies in the past month, a parliamentary committee has heard this morning in evidence described as “a national disgrace”.
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The State Government has stopped funding a publicly-run child protection program that has worked with at-risk children and their families for almost the past decade, and will instead go out to tender to replace the service – angering doctors and other health workers.
EXCLUSIVE | A group of 28 “angry and frustrated” emergency specialist doctors from the Royal Adelaide Hospital has written to SA Health lamenting an ongoing lack of services and treatment delays for mental health patients, suggesting a Royal Commission might be the only way to fix the broken system.
The Marshall Government outlined plans to replace reliance on public hospital beds with a new “industrialised” private health sector in a consultancy contract it quietly awarded early this year.
The State Government has failed to find funding to replace an intensive treatment unit designed to prevent dangerously long emergency department waiting times for Adelaide mental health patients, the doctors’ union says.
SA Health has dismissed doctors’ fears some patients from the condemned Oakden older person’s mental health facility could end up in emergency departments because the facility to which they are being transferred is not capable of dealing with acute mental health conditions.
