SA releases major new health plan

SOME OF THE CHANGES PROPOSED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S TRANSFORMING HEALTH PAPER

* The Royal Adelaide, Flinders and Lyell McEwin hospitals to become "super sites" for major emergencies with 24/7 senior medical staff;

* Queen Elizabeth and Modbury hospitals to be scaled down with life-threatening emergency patients to go directly to a super site;

* Noarlunga Hospital to become SA's centre for single day elective surgery and an expert palliative care site;

* The Queen Elizabeth hospital to focus on multi-day elective surgery;

* A walk-in emergency clinic to be established at Noarlunga Hospital opposite the current hospital on the site of the GP Plus Super Clinic;

* Repatriation General Hospital and Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre to be closed, with their rehabilitation services to be integrated into other hospitals;

* A new Post-Traumatic Stress centre to be set up at an undecided location, replacing Ward 17 at the Repatriation General Hospital;

* more than 70 new paramedics, 12 new ambulances and two new ambulance stations to deal with the Emergency Departments' changes; and

* a new dedicated centre of elective eye surgery at a reconfigured Modbury Hospital.