Calls for more aged care investment to help cure SA's 'healthcare sickness'

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Andrew Partington,Chris Picton,Health Crisis

A researcher says hospital ramping and treatment delays cannot be overcome without significant federal aged care investment.

amid an ongoing ramping crisis, a Flinders University researcher says little can be fixed without a "proactive and collaborative Commonwealth government"., despite the SA Labor government's 2018 election promise to fix an issue that had blighted the previous Liberal government.

Mr Partington said the federal government had been "incredibly slow to respond to the burning platform that was the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety". "No older South Australian wants to spend longer in hospital when they can be back at home in aged care." Former head of obstetrics at Flinders Medical Centre, Emeritus Professor Warren Jones, was one Labor's loudest critics in its previous term when it implemented its highly

"They have put more money and resources into the health system than has ever been put in before, and the beds will get up to 500 extra by the time they get kicked out, or go to the next government," Dr Jones said.Mr Picton said the SA government was adding the beds in a staggered rollout this year; next to the Lyell McEwin, Noarlunga, Modbury, and Queen Elizabeth hospitals, and Flinders Medical Centre.

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