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NSW Health Minister Ryan Park issued a dire warning about the state’s triple zero line.

Health officials scramble with mass resignation of state’s doctors

A metropolitan Sydney hospital will struggle to treat patients after more than half of the state’s hospital psychiatrists tendered their resignations.

  • Cindy Yin

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WA Liberals leader Libby Mettam and Premier Roger Cook.

Labor, Libs in tug-of-war over $1.8bn hospital plan as election looms

The parties have come to blows over the contentious women’s and babies hospital after the Liberal leader wrote to construction giant Webuild vowing to tear up a deal.

  • Jesinta Burton
Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas.

Hospital carve-up completed, new health networks unveiled

The Allan government is creating 12 new networks – each designed to service at least 200,000 people – after consulting hospitals, doctors and councils opposed to the original plan.

  • Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Anne Weekes at Wee Waa Hospital: “The hospital is part of the fabric of the town.”

The hospital where you can have an emergency only during business hours

Patients used to turn up in the back of a ute, needing urgent help for a snakebite or farm injury. Now they can only do so between 8am and 5.30pm.

  • Catherine Naylor
The Murdoch medihotel was built by Aegis Health but will be run by the South Metro Health Service.

The Murdoch medihotel was meant to cost WA taxpayers $55 million. It’s nearly double that

The midyear budget review released before Christmas shows the cost to run the now 80-bed facility had blown out to $98.6 million.

  • Hamish Hastie
The man suffered fatal injuries after being shot by police outside the hospital.

Man dead following stand-off with police outside NSW hospital

The man allegedly pointed a gun at police before being fatally shot outside Manning Base Hospital in Taree.

  • Amber Schultz and Riley Walter
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A rolling GIF of artist’s impressions for the new Rouse Hill hospital, which is due to open around 2029.

This hospital will cost $700 million. There’ll be nowhere to have a baby

Locals in the Hills Shire were furious to discover that, when their new hospital eventually opens, it won’t have a birthing suite.

  • Angus Thomson

Government warned two years ago about allegations surgeons ripping off WorkCover

The news comes after The Age revealed IBAC is combing through WorkCover bills, not just TAC invoices, as part of its probe into a handful of surgeons at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Romina Raschilla.

WA nurses’ union members back new government pay deal

The new deal avoids an ugly showdown between Labor and WA’s biggest union ahead of the March state election.

  • Cameron Myles
Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles. 

‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes

NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson

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