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Worn chairs in the cancer ward of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital have been replaced with new recliners, after a patient’s father spoke out about “potential for infection”.
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The State Government has begun considering how it will transform one of North Adelaide’s most high-profile sites overlooking the park lands when the Women’s and Children’s Hospital moves to a new city railyards site.
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The Opposition has continued its focus on health spending with a promise of an extra 50 beds at the yet-to-be-built new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, while the Marshall Government attacked Labor’s health record and pledged payroll tax cuts to kick off the first week of the four-week state election campaign.
Lendlease has been given the job of building the new $1.95 billion Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Children were left waiting for care in ambulances outside the Women’s and Children’s Hospital overnight in the worst case of ramping doctors and paramedics say they have seen there amid increasing concerns about the state’s preparedness for a COVID outbreak.
A 15-year-old Adelaide boy with cerebral palsy and autism has been awarded $9.5 million in compensation for being deprived of oxygen for 27 minutes immediately after his birth at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital.
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.
