May 18, 2012
Labor’s move to treat its self-inflicted wound by reinstating $350,000 in a one-off payment to the Keith Hospital is a stop-gap measure which provides no long term solutions.
Read more >
May 17, 2012
Doctors and nurses are appearing before the Industrial Relations Commission in a dispute with Health Minister Hill over the planned closure of mental health beds, which they believe will increase workloads at emergency departments (EDs) in the south.
Read more >
May 17, 2012
Minister for Health Hill must state whether he or his office was involved in directing Health officials demand that Flinders Emergency Department (ED) head Dr Di King accept ambulance admissions, regardless of whether it was safe to do so.
Read more >
May 16, 2012
Decisions by the former Head of Unit at the Flinders Emergency Department (ED) not to accept casualties into unattended and ill-equipped hospital corridors have been vindicated by findings of the Coroner made in 2004.
Read more >
May 14, 2012
At the worst possible time, Labor’s Federal budget has delivered damaging blows to Health, Mental Health and Aged Care Services in both country and city SA. The cuts will create new cost pressures for patients and which will make it harder for GPs to bulk bill.
Read more >
May 13, 2012
The Weatherill Labor government has budgeted to sell the car parks at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) from under the noses of the hospital’s charitable foundation. The Foundation supports research, patient facilities and purchases medical equipment.
Read more >
May 12, 2012
The Department Head at the Emergency Department (ED) at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) has quit the post after a crisis meeting following industrial action by ambulance officers over ‘ramping’ outside the hospital on Monday 7th May.
Read more >
May 08, 2012
Paramedics are fed up with ambulances being left queuing at city hospitals with patients suffering unattended due to mismanagement at emergency departments.
Read more >
May 07, 2012
Parliament has heard that by June 2013, SA Health will face a $455 million black hole, an ongoing inquiry into alleged corruption and a host of other newly emerging problems.
Read more >
May 07, 2012
SA is the worst performing state in the nation on emergency department waiting with only 59.4 per cent of patients being treated and out of ED within four hours.
Read more >