Healthcare
‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit
The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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‘Clear risks to staff and clients’: The community health buildings that are falling apart
For many of these places, foundations are failing, there are cracks in the walls or portions of the roofs could cave in at any moment.
- by Broede Carmody
‘I’m waiting for him to come home’: Private hospital under fire over 17-year-old’s sudden death
Three families whose children died at privately run emergency departments overseen by financially stricken Healthscope have spoken out about their ordeals.
- by Christine Ahern and Natalie Clancy
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Hospitals
‘Appalling act’: Royal Children’s Hospital to slash cancer centre jobs on eve of charity appeal
The Children’s Cancer Centre will lose as many as 10 full-time equivalent roles, including dedicated mental health workers, in a move staff have described as devastating.
- by Broede Carmody
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Coroners Court of Victoria
Baby Mia lived for only eight hours. Her parents still wonder if hospital staff could have saved her
Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Opinion
Healthcare
Doctors like me pay a heavy price to do our jobs. Pay us what we’re worth
Doctors spend many years and thousands of dollars to become qualified. There are good reasons why they’re striking for more money.
- by Anonymous
‘Win for the northern beaches’: Community celebrates as embattled hospital operator flags exit
Taxpayers should not reward Healthscope’s mismanagement of Northern Beaches Hospital with a profit, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said.
- by Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
NSW doctors begin three-day strike
Hundreds of doctors gathered outside NSW Health headquarters on Tuesday to demand improved conditions and pay parity with interstate.
The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike
Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.
- by Angus Thomson
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Healthcare
The silent infection fuelling a rise in liver cancer deaths
The federal Health Department is proposing universal testing to ensure everyone knows their hepatitis B status, amid concerns too many people are unaware they have the disease.
- by Henrietta Cook
‘Jeopardise patient safety’: Plea to doctors over three-day strike
The union says staff levels will not drop below public holiday levels, but the health minister says the strike will jeopardise patient safety.
- by Christopher Harris
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