Women’s and Children’s Hospital

Thursday, April 09

Netted, drugged, locked away: the damning face of child mental health in SA

South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up in seclusion at extreme rates and forcibly injected with sedating drugs, prompting warnings youngsters are suffering lasting harm from coercive health-system practices.

Questions unanswered on Women's and Children's Hospital rebuild

The future of the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital remains clouded, with the Liberal Government still hoping to rebuild the entire facility within the riverbank medical precinct, despite Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas’s warning such a move could cost “well in excess of $2.5 billion”.

Health Minister Jack Snelling and Premier Jay Weatherill at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

A new Women's Hospital - but where are the children?

A newly-built Women’s Hospital is back on the Government’s agenda as it gears up for another state election – with plans for a co-located children’s facility to be unveiled if Labor retains office – but the proposal will now be delivered later and cost far more than was originally promised.

SA hospital failed to report eight baby deaths: Coroner

The deaths of eight babies at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital were not reported by medical practitioners over nine years, the state coroner says.