February
Catholic Health’s new plan to fix hospitals at ‘breaking point’
Private hospital groups have sent Labor a package of proposals they say can save the struggling sector.
November 2024
‘They can afford to pay’: Strike to hit private hospital giant
Nurses and midwives at Ramsay Health Care will strike at 17 hospitals in NSW for 24 hours on Tuesday demanding a 20 per cent pay increase.
September 2024
‘At tipping point’: Inside one of Australia’s busiest hospitals
Doctors and nurses in Australia’s busiest emergency ward say the system is under unprecedented pressure amid a surge in mental illness and geriatric patients with nowhere else to go.
July 2024
St Vincent’s splits with insurer NIB amid private hospitals ‘crisis’
St Vincent’s on Thursday told health fund NIB it would walk away from its contract over an entrenched pricing disagreement.
June 2024
Cyber protection boosted in critical healthcare sector
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is rolling out a new intelligence centre as part of efforts to upgrade cyber safeguards for healthcare and hospitals.
November 2023
Integral Diagnostics chair pops up for Partners Group at Cura auction
The Zug-headquartered private equity firm is serious about its tilt as it jostles with Intermediate Capital Group and a Medibank/Macquarie consortium.
April 2022
Fund managers turn out for St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation
In Sydney as in any civilised metropolis, its wealthy denizens lean heavily into medical philanthropy.
July 2021
St Vincent’s gets going on $180m build at private hospital
Investment in healthcare real estate has become an increasing focus of traditional commercial property companies in recent times.
March 2020
Scare at Sydney hospital; rush to expand testing
Officials are urgently trying to expand the health system's capacity to test people for coronavirus as fear of the infection spreads, as it was revealed a man in his 70s who went to St Vincent's hospital emergency department has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
March 2019
St Vincent's Health calls for an overhaul of the private system
The hospital and aged care wants greater powers for APRA, better transparency for the consumer and to ensure healthcare is affordable for all.