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An investigation is underway into the care of a little girl whose appendix burst while waiting for treatment in the overcrowded emergency department of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
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Resources at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital are “so thin on the ground now that we are seeing errors”, doctors’ incident safety reports are being downgraded and staff have serious reservations about planning for the new hospital, frontline medicos have told a parliamentary committee.
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UPDATED: The ambulance ramping crisis is now affecting children, who have for the first time been left parked outside the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, a parliamentary committee has heard this morning.
An independent inquiry has found that South Australia’s only state-funded support service for rape and sexual assault victims has experienced “capacity issues”, with at least one vulnerable girl turned away in the past year – but SA Health insists that no-one was denied support.
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.
A long-running squabble over who should run a specialised statewide service for children with eating disorders has finally been resolved – but there are concerns from within SA Health’s own advisory group that the governance structure has been “botched”.
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