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‘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.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses, the hospital’s staff have warned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes
Half of psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations in the latest dispute between the state government and its workers.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
HSC results 2024 as it happened: NSW year 12 students receive marks, ATARs
The day has come. Join us as we celebrate the Class of 2024 as they receive their results this morning. Follow our live coverage.
- by Anthony Segaert and Angus Thomson
Australians reported to be among seven tourists poisoned, rushed to hospital in Fiji
Seven people were taken from a resort to hospital having become sick after drinking cocktails.
- by Roy Ward and Angus Thomson
Who are the Bali Five? What you need to know about their return
The five remaining members of the Bali Nine are back in Australia. But what did they do and what happened to their friends?
- by Angus Thomson
Swimmer’s body found off northern beaches
The search for a missing person ended in tragedy on Sunday.
- by Angus Thomson
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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.
- by Angus Thomson
Revealed: How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients
Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions, but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
- by Angus Thomson
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Anger, frustration and revolt: Inside the final day of NSW’s drug summit
As the drug summit unfolded, it became dominated by the one topic the government wanted off the table: decriminalisation.
- by Michael McGowan and Angus Thomson
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Drug reform
Labor pushed on pill testing on final day of drug summit
The Minns government is facing a concerted push from powerful union leaders and MPs to adopt drug reforms such as pill testing and an additional medically supervised injecting centre as the drug summit resumes on Thursday.
- by Alexandra Smith, Angus Thomson and Michael McGowan
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/angus-thomson-p53654