A new service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) is helping members of the community with severe needle phobia get vaccinated against COVID-19. The RAH’s Specialist Vaccination Clinic worked with operating theatre anaesthetists and managers to create a process where...
One group of patients who have demonstrated flexibility during the pandemic is those receiving renal dialysis. Central Adelaide looks after around 650 patients for haemodialysis right across the state. Most attend three times a week to the RAH or a community-based...
Central Adelaide staff have been heavily involved in responding to COVID outbreaks in aged care facilities since the borders opened. Dr Chloe Furst, Geriatrician consultant, and nurse unit managers Mark Dallman and Helen Burvill led our clinical response teams – at...
Central Adelaide clinicians and educators have in recent weeks headed north to Port Augusta to assist the Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network’s (FUNLHN) COVID-19 response, passing on insights and learnings from CALHN’s own pandemic experience. The community...
Central Adelaide’s Dr Jyotsna (Jo) is one of 12 physicians supporting South Australia’s Virtual Care Service (SAVCS), helping patients get care closer to home and keeping SAAS crews on the road. The statewide SAVCS was established in December 2021 to ease the...
South Australian student nurses are benefitting from the pandemic’s once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain clinical insight and practice and build critical hands-on skills that will help shape their future careers. Accredited Bachelor level nursing programs include...
