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Composite image of Healthscope hospitals where nurses and midwives are refusing to perform cleaning duties.

These nurses stopped cleaning. Then the hospital docked their pay

As stacks of dirty linen and hospital waste piled up, seven private hospitals issued their nurses and midwives with a stern warning.

  • Angus Thomson

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A damning submission to the Audit Office of NSW by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) NSW said dangerously low staffing levels and chronic bed block were putting patients at risk, and doctors’ were growing increasingly frustrated with the operators, Healthscope, and their owners Brookfield

A stroke victim waited hours for a bed. These doctors want answers

Doctors at Northern Beaches Hospital have raised several concerning incidents in their submission to an independent audit of the privately run public hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
Rural Fire Service volunteers watch a bushfire which started near Oxford Falls burn slowly through bushland toward Cromer in Sydney’s northern beaches.

Bushfire downgraded on Sydney’s northern beaches after planned burn jumped containment lines

The Rural Fire Service has lowered the alert level for the blaze which began as a hazard reduction burn in Oxford Falls.

  • Sarah McPhee
Kaushik Chatterjee winning best dressed at a Melbourne Cup Luncheon. He drowned at a remote Sydney beach on Saturday.

Colleagues distraught at drowning of ‘kind-hearted soul’

Kaushik Chatterjee’s death has shocked friends and co-workers after he got into strife at a remote Ku-ring-gai beach.

  • Carrie Fellner
A helicopter arrives at Flint and Steel Beach in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on Saturday.

Man in critical condition after drowning at remote Ku-ring-gai beach

Rescuers had to use a boat to retrieve the man from the beach, which can only be accessed by a steep bushland track.

  • Carrie Fellner
3x2HP_Northern Beaches Hospital with tear out

Financial woes cast ‘significant doubt’ over Northern Beaches Hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital owes $280 million to Healthscope, the private hospital operator that tumbled to a $649 million loss in 2023.

  • Angus Thomson
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Northern Beaches Hospital.

The seven-day healthcare clinic that’s closed 14 per cent of the time

The GP clinic is meant to cut wait times at Northern Beaches Hospital. Instead, it’s struggling to stay open.

  • Angus Thomson
Andrew Gill’s son Josh died under horrific circumstances, taking his own life.

Hospital given ultimatum over delay in creating children’s crisis beds

The Northern Beaches Hospital has eight weeks to explain why children in crisis have nowhere to go more than a year after it was given $7.5 million.

  • Laura Banks
Andrew Gill’s son Josh died under horrific circumstances two years ago after failures, his dad says, by the Northern Beaches Hospital to treat his mental health issues. The state government offered funding for specialised beds, but more than a year on they are yet to be built.

‘How many more kids need to die?’ Father’s plea as health pledge stalls

More than a year after the Northern Beaches Hospital was given $7.5 million for beds for children in mental health crisis, none have materialised.

  • Laura Banks
He is known to frequent the North Head and Manly areas.

Missing elderly man from Manly found dead

The body of 81-year-old Richard Gottschald, who had been missing since Tuesday, was found in waters off Manly Beach on Saturday.

  • Millie Muroi

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