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Botched hospital stays caused more than 100 deaths
While serious blunders are down from last year’s record high, there has been an uptick in suicides and incidents involving babies less than a week old.
- by Broede Carmody
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Healthcare
My son’s death was not in vain: Joe’s Law means lives will be saved
The NSW government has changed the law so that public-private partnership arrangements for the provision of acute hospital services are prohibited. It’s turned our grief into something good.
- by Elouise Massa
Osborne Park clinic baffled by repeat visits from ‘poo jogger’
A jogger has left several unwanted deposits at an Osborne Park health clinic over the past six months, prompting staff to invite them to see one of their GPs.
- by Jamie Freestone
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Trapped and dying: Victoria’s worst hospital for emergency department waits
Frustrated patients are discharging themselves after two-day waits at Mildura Base Hospital as hundreds languish in the overwhelmed ED.
- by Henrietta Cook
Kristy thought this virus was mild. Then her baby ended up in hospital
Many babies are heading into winter without full protection against the leading cause of severe respiratory illness in infants.
- by Angus Thomson
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Workplace
Penny’s commute is 90 minutes each way. No wonder workers like her are quitting
Most of Sydney’s care workers live in the city’s west, but demand is highest in the east. That mismatch is taking a growing toll.
- by Matt Wade
Beyond the knife: How public hospitals are diverting patients away from surgery and into therapy
Many orthopaedic surgeries are often no better at alleviating pain than less expensive and safer non-surgical treatments, such as exercise programs.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Eating disorders
Stephanie was told she would never get better. Now she’s at the forefront of treating her illness
Only 50 per cent of people with an eating disorder have weight and shape concerns as their central or most important symptom.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Healthcare
‘She would have survived’: The three key moments that led to tragedy
A conclave of medical experts unanimously agreed the death of Pippa White was “preventable”. Her parents are now asking: “How do we stop this from happening again?”
- by Angus Thomson
Opinion
Healthcare
Healthscope’s ills point to unhealthy connection between public patients and private profit
NSW has been privatising government services since the early ’90s. It has cost taxpayers billions.
- by Tony Harris
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Patients at Brisbane hospital told to prepare for its imminent closure
Toowong Private Hospital was found to be in such poor financial shape, it will close within weeks after administrators failed to find a buyer.
- by Sean Parnell
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