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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.
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The Employment Tribunal has ruled in favour of doctors being allowed to take industrial action at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, saying the planned work bans would not pose a serious risk to patients – and might actually improve safety.
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A lawyer overseeing multiple class actions interstate for underpayment of junior medicos has begun work on a similar claim in South Australia, saying “the unpaid labour of junior doctors in SA is embedded into the business model of SA Health”.
Doctors are “confused” about conflicting modelling showing the estimated spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisation rates once South Australia opens its borders, saying Government-commissioned data released today appears to contradict SA Health estimates presented to them last week.
Emergency doctors at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital say a chronic lack of resourcing is putting children’s lives at risk and urgent action must be taken before “the system fails completely”.
EXCLUSIVE: More than 60 per cent of South Australian hospital doctors surveyed feel pressured to discharge patients before they are medically ready, with one clinician reporting a death soon after.
UPDATED: A secret savings plan is being prepared by SA Health with consultant firm KordaMentha to axe staff including doctors and nurses from Adelaide hospitals, according to clinicians who say the system cannot cope with any further cuts.
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