South Australia's biggest public hospital is operating above its official capacity, with staff told to delay non-urgent tasks as they struggle to deal with an influx of patients leading into winter.
SA Health is asking South Australians to seek non-urgent healthcare elsewhere than from a hospital after an electrical fault has thrown its electronic medical records system into disarray.
Did you hear about the pub with no beer? Well what about the hospital emergency department with no pillows? That's what confronted the South Australian government this week, among the litany of other health headaches.
Ambulance patients taken to Adelaide hospitals who are considered well enough to sit are being asked to wait inside emergency departments and are then not counted as being ramped, as overstretched hospitals run above official capacity.