Ramping and overcrowded hospitals are issues the South Australian healthcare system faces every day. But each Monday a perfect storm of complications aligns, cranking up the pressure. Here's why.
"Most acute care hospitals operate on reduced staffing," he said."We rely heavily on community services to be available and accessible over weekends and often that's difficult to organise," Dr Subramaniam said.
Professor Dabars wants to see nurses, allied health professionals and junior doctors able to discharge more acute patients under something called criteria-led discharge . "It [CLD] works quite well in some areas but I defy anyone to go around and find patients sitting around in the hospital for want of a doctor to come in on a Monday morning," Dr Pope said.David Pope says elective surgery admissions make Mondays busier than other days."That worse effect on a Monday is purely a function of when elective surgery patients arrive," he said.
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