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SA Govt yet to offer genuine solutions to acute hospital access crisis
The Australasian College for Emergency (ACEM; the College) is calling for the South Australian Government to offer genuine and systemic improvements to address the state’s acute hospital access crisis.
The call comes as the state’s emergency departments (EDs) continue to come under immense pressure while the government focuses primarily on reannouncements of previous plans to expand emergency department capacity.
ACEM South Australia Faculty Chair Dr Mark Morphett said, “Government responses to the escalating crisis have continually fallen short of addressing the root systemic causes of the dangerous bottlenecks being experienced in South Australian EDs.”
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“South Australians deserve better”: mental health system must be fixed
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) have called on the South Australian Government to get their house in order and get real about mental health.
Insufficient mental health services causing bed block in emergency departments (EDs) and contributing to overcrowding, long wait times for admission and resultant ramping is just the tip of the iceberg.
Chair of the RANZCP SA Branch, Dr Paul Furst, commented that the resignation of Adjunct Professor John Mendoza shows the disconnect between the government and the people trying to deliver mental health services on the ground.