South Australia releases major new health plan to improve emergency departments

Adelaide's Repatriation General Hospital will be closed and emergency departments at three hospitals will become "super-sites" under a major new health plan released by the South Australian government.

The emergency departments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Lyell McEwin in the city's north, and Flinders Medical Centre in the south will be staffed by senior staff at all times.

Noarlunga Hospital will no longer take ambulance emergency patients but a walk-in emergency clinic will be established and it will become the statewide centre for single-day elective surgery.

Premier Jay Weatherill has released the Transforming Health consultation paper and said it was the biggest change to the state's health system ever undertaken.

Rehabilitation services will be moved from the Repatriation General Hospital, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and St Margaret's Rehabilitation Hospital and be integrated into the major hospitals.