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The state’s largest hospital, the RBWH, is among those where surgeries have been “paused”.

Surgeries cancelled at Brisbane hospitals as flu, COVID fill beds

Some operations at four major hospitals – including the state’s largest – are on hold for 48 hours to free-up beds for emergency patients.

  • William Davis

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The Mater Hospital in Wollstonecraft.

The NSW hospitals where 60 per cent of women have caesareans

More women are seeking to “control” childbirth amid increased openness about traumatic experiences in labour. 

  • Mary Ward
Composite artwork for Angus Thomson story on interventional radiology at Westmead Hospital. Text is an excerpt of a letter from Eastwood GP Fiona Dennison to Health Minister Ryan Park. 

High radiation, broken machines: Crucial Sydney hospital service facing collapse

Doctors and patients have urged the NSW health minister to intervene in the latest mass resignation to hit the state’s public health system.

  • Angus Thomson
Premier David Crisafulli has rebuked claims the public sector offer breaks an election promise to health workers, insisting they are “nation-leading pay conditions”.

Nurses reject Crisafulli’s claim wage offer is ‘nation leading’

After meeting with the state government 36 times this year and failing to reach an agreement, union members have confirmed stronger industrial action from next week.

  • Courtney Kruk
NSW hospitals are at risk of hacks because of lax cybersecurity standards, a leaked government audit has revealed

Sensitive NSW medical records at risk of falling into hackers’ hands, damning leak reveals

The state’s public hospitals are failing to meet cybersecurity standards despite measures costing taxpayers $40 million a year, a leaked government audit has revealed.

  • Angus Thomson
Westmead Hospital

Sydney hospital boss departs after cancer diagnosis delays revealed

The shock announcement came just hours before doctors were due to move a vote of no confidence in his handling of a backlog of patients waiting for diagnostic procedures.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Kate Aubusson with her husband Dylan and their children Lyra and Marlowe at the Annandale home.

Why my husband’s howl over back pain could happen 4 million times around Australia

An increasing number of people are calling triple zero for ambulances to take them to emergency departments for back problems. It’s not always the right answer.

  • Kate Aubusson
Two cases of delayed cancer diagnosis reported to Westmead Hospital management.

‘Not manageable’: Patients waiting up to a year for cancer diagnoses at Sydney hospital

A woman diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer after 363 days is among dozens of cases which have led doctors at one of Sydney’s biggest hospitals to sound the alarm.

  • Angus Thomson
The $600 million Victorian Heart Hospital plans to close an operating theatre and six recovery beds.

Heart hospital closing operating theatre, beds for ‘fiscal sustainability’

Doctors warn patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions will wait longer for treatment because of cost-cutting at the state’s new $600 million specialist hospital.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
The Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney is one of Healthscope’s newest and largest facilities.

Scandal-plagued Sydney hospital faces having contract terminated

The NSW Labor government will take the first steps to ending its contract with the Northern Beaches Hospital.

  • Alexandra Smith

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