Overview:
• A plan to close 39 beds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) has been temporarily suspended by SA Health after talks with the nursing union. Australian Nursing Federation official Elizabeth Dabars met department officials to ask for more evidence the beds were not needed.
• The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne poll found Australians were spending $67 million annually on cough and cold medication for children aged under 15.Dr Anthea Rhodes, a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, said one problem was that the drugs were so easily available and many people failed to realise that they could have significant risks.
• A team of medical specialists working with pregnant women who are using drugs will meet with the state’s Assistant Health Minister Pru Goward to argue the case for her to lift the ban on pregnant women entering the injecting centre in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Dr Marianne Jauncey, the medical director of the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross, said the biggest danger for pregnant women using was for them to stop suddenly.
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