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Toowong Private Hospital operated on Milton Road for more than 40 years, before collapsing into administration.

Struggling Toowong hospital ‘bought $300k artwork’

Toowong Private Hospital was experiencing financial difficulties when it bought the $300,000 artwork from its sole director, the company’s administrators say.

  • Marissa Calligeros

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

‘Watching a disaster unfold’: Calls mount for Crisafulli government to buy Brisbane private hospital

The state opposition joined 11th-hour calls for the government to swoop in and save one of Brisbane’s few mental health hospitals.

  • Marissa Calligeros
The number of people overdue for elective surgery in NSW has more than doubled in the past year.

Why the wait for surgery in NSW is the worst it’s been in years

Thousands of patients are overdue for life-changing surgeries as waitlists soar to levels not seen since the pandemic, forcing a $23 million cash injection from the state government.

  • Angus Thomson
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
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
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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
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

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