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The Marshall Government has been forced to extend its consultation on the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, after clinicians refused to sign off on key design plans for the build, citing inadequate consultation and a lack of information about the proposed services.
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EXCLUSIVE | SafeWork SA has been asked to investigate conditions inside the Royal Adelaide Hospital after snap inspections of the crowded emergency department discovered “clinical risk”, distressed staff and patients, and clinicians at “breaking point”, confidential documents obtained by InDaily reveal.
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Up to 10 patients a day who may have “committed violent crimes” are being turned away from the state’s specialist forensic psychiatric facility due to a lack of beds – and are being kept under guard in emergency departments and hospital wards.
Junior doctors in South Australia are “strongly considering” launching a class action against SA Health for systemic “wage theft” over “unpaid overtime”, following similar legal moves interstate.
The Lyell McEwin Hospital has replaced “hard” shackles with “soft” to restrain patients in line with new standards and following findings by the Chief Psychiatrist of “under-reporting” of the controversial practice.
The South Australian nurses’ union has accused the Health Minister of failing to take “leadership” of the state’s struggling health system, and warns of “disastrous consequences” if he doesn’t take immediate action.
South Australian doctors are being directed by hospital administrators to discharge patients before they are clinically ready and data is being manipulated to make wait lists look better than they are, a parliamentary committee has been told.
