NewsBite

Hospitals

Advertisement
Linda Romeo’s mother died in March after spending six hours on a trolley in a corridor at Mildura Hospital.

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.

  • Henrietta Cook

Latest

Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Police probe patient’s death after attack in hospital psych ward

Information about the man’s death in May was not released until hospital staff contacted the media, saying the public needed to know.

  • Tim Arvier and Catherine Strohfeldt
Pauline Anderson avoided surgery and is finally pain-free after treating her lower back with physiotherapy at a major Melbourne hospital.

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.

  • Henrietta Cook

Think this election’s ageing voter problem was bad? It’s only going to get worse

There’s been a variety of reasons offered for why the number of informal votes among ageing Australians has almost tripled, but each one fails as an explanation.

  • Shane Wright
Brisbane’s Toowong Private Hospital will close down after administrators found no viable option to keep it open.

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.

  • Sean Parnell
Pippa White.

Rare but ‘catastrophic’ bacterial infection behind NSW children’s deaths

Pippa White’s death came at the beginning of a surge in cases of a devastating illness which led to the death of four other children, an inquest heard on Tuesday.

  • Angus Thomson
Advertisement
Healthscope chief executive Tino La Spina says it is business as usual for the country’s second-largest hospital operator.

Why has Healthscope entered receivership?

One of Australia’s biggest private hospital operators has gone under and its collapse has raised questions about the future of private hospitals in the country.

  • Supratim Adhikari
State of emergency: Healthscope hospitals will be sold

Healthscope owners contributed to its corporate heart attack

Bank funding has been put in place to keep the collapsed group’s hospitals open. But the long-term survival of all them is not assured.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Pippa White with parents Annah and Brock, sisters Tamika, Sophie, and Lucy, twin brother Leo, and brother Bodhi.

Brock lost both parents young. Now he’s grieving a daughter who could have been saved

Pippa White should have been treated urgently but emergency staff were inundated with critically ill patients, an inquest into her death has heard.

  • Angus Thomson
Pippa White with a ‘special love rock’ she found in Penrith.

Annah was told to take her daughter home from hospital. She died the next day

Two grieving parents hope an inquest resuming this week will build momentum for change after a series of high-profile failures in NSW hospitals.

  • Angus Thomson

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/hospitals-5yd