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Surgeons report hospitals are refusing to accept patients onto wait lists who risk breaching KPIs.

Hospitals ‘buffing’ surgery wait times to hit KPIs, doctors warn

All patients receive surgery on time at this Sydney hospital, according to the official data. Doctors say the truth is very different.

  • Kate Aubusson

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Toowong Private Hospital has been operating on Milton Road for more than 40 years.

‘Beacon of hope’: Future of Brisbane private hospital remains unclear

One of Brisbane’s leading psychiatric hospitals has entered voluntary administration amid a funding crisis that threatens the viability of private facilities nationwide.

  • Marissa Calligeros
Beds were removed from Blacktown Hospital on Thursday amid the doctors’ strike.

In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming

Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.

  • Angus Thomson
Shar Christoff Harris with her son.

‘It’s getting worse and worse’: Dying Perth mother stuck in ED for 36 hours

She posted a video after hospital staff were forced to park her at the end of a hallway and put up a makeshift curtain while they waited for a bed in a ward.

  • Sarah Brookes
Bec Mueller Sewell, Gitta Mueller and Doug Sewell

‘This should never have happened’: Why almost 100 admissions only made Bec sicker

Bec was admitted to hospital almost 100 times from age 19. There was nowhere safe for her to get better.

  • Kate Aubusson
Underresourced public hospitals have refused to treat women seeking pregnancy terminations.

Without doctors, hospital patients left in locked wards

Extremely unwell patients held against their will at a western Sydney hospital are waiting for days to see a psychiatrist.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Victoria’s health minister wants to see a 4 per cent improvement in patient offload times by July 1.

Ambos to treat multiple patients more often to reduce ramping

Hospitals have been told to reduce their patient offload times by 4 per cent by the end of this financial year.

  • Broede Carmody
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the measures on Wednesday.

PM throws states a $1.7 billion lifeline to save hospitals

The Albanese government seeks to prove its commitment to Medicare before the upcoming election – while holding out on a fresh five-year deal with the states.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
A leaked patient list from Westmead Hospital Emergency Department

Ninety hours in emergency: Leaked patient list reveals dire effects of psychiatrist crisis

Severely ill and distressed patients are waiting three and a half days in emergency for mental health beds that don’t exist in a shocking escalation of the state’s psychiatrist workforce crisis.

  • Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
Resigned NSW Health psychiatrist, Dr Christina Matthews and Dr Pramudie Gunaratne, the NSW chair of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Wards closed, emergency departments under pressure as doctors walk off job

Resigning psychiatrists warn of worsening backlogs in emergency departments when mentally ill patients have nowhere to go due to ward closures.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson

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