Transforming Health: The divisive wash-up

SA Health has commissioned consultants to evaluate the biggest hospital system overhaul in the state’s history. But one conclusion is already inescapable: Transforming Health has fractured the vital relationship between SA’s doctors and the bureaucrats who employ them.

New RAH will fail to cover nearly 40,000 patient appointments

The head of SA Health has conceded the $2.3 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital’s outpatient facilities are inadequate to meet expected demand, as the department scrambles to figure out how to cater for a shortfall of almost 40,000 patient appointments a year.

Then-Mental Health Minister Leesa Vlahos (centre-right) next to SA Health CEO Vicki Kaminski, answering journalists' questions following the release of the Oakden Report.

New clinical boss for Oakden as questions pile up

A new clinical lead for the Older Person’s Mental Health Service will begin work next week, SA Health says, as questions multiply over the length of time it took for complaints about Oakden to be addressed.

SA Health executive roles "impossible"

The SA head of the Australian Medical Association has suggested SA Health’s senior roles should be carved up after the under-fire department’s boss admitted the high turnover rate of executives was damaging morale and leading to staff ignoring executive directions.

Review for SA hospital power back-ups

The systems keeping South Australia’s hospitals running when power is lost will be reviewed after failures during the state’s blackout.

Vickie Kaminski

Transforming Health: The divisive wash-up

New RAH will fail to cover nearly 40,000 patient appointments

New clinical boss for Oakden as questions pile up

SA Health executive roles "impossible"

Review for SA hospital power back-ups