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Ambulances were ramped outside SA hospitals for a record number of hours in March, according to the latest statistics, with the government blaming an increase in emergency department presentations.

A union is calling for round-the-clock onsite security to protect nurses at a hospital in regional South Australia, claiming staff are dealing with "violence and trauma" on a regular basis.

A woman says hospital staff were unable to give her 93-year-old father a pillow in an Adelaide emergency department, which was so overcrowded people were sitting on the waiting room floor.

SA Health promises to open another 26 beds at the Flinders Medical Centre next week, as the state opposition labels the government's "fit to sit" strategy a "sham" and a "disgrace".

Jun Ting Song — who has just turned nine years old — is one of 30 identified children whose cochlear implant was not programmed properly at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital.

The Greens in South Australia will seek to legislate ambulance response times in a bid to help drive improvements in the system and increase transparency.

An independent review has been ordered into the incorrect programming of cochlear ear implants for as many as 30 children in South Australia.An independent review has been ordered into the incorrect programming of cochlear ear implants for as many as 30 children in South Australia which left

The South Australian government has ordered an independent review of how about 30 children with cochlear ear implants had their devices incorrectly programmed.

The Nursing and Midwifery Federation is campaigning against violence towards nurses after an incident at the Wallaroo hospital left staff terrified.

The clinics will be open for extended hours seven days a week as part of the federal government's plan to alleviate congested hospital emergency departments.

Staff at the Wallaroo Hospital were left terrified by an incident that ended when a man who had allegedly smashed a dozen windows was tasered by police, the nurses' union says.