Hospitals in crisis
These NSW doctors warned of a fractured system and now half have quit
Half the state’s public psychiatrists have resigned as the Bondi Junction attack inquest shines a spotlight on chronically understaffed mental health units.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Father of Perth toddler who died with undiagnosed leukaemia welcomes coronial inquest
A review into the death of a one-year-old boy suffering from undiagnosed leukaemia has determined it was “reasonable” that he did not get a blood test at a Perth hospital.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Grieving parents were not consulted during review into son’s death at Joondalup hospital
Suzan Al Hulow and Ali Al-Khafaji’s baby son Amir died inside Al Hulow’s womb while in the care of the public hospital on March 22.
- by Hamish Hastie
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‘No one had the staff to let me have a baby’: Women forced to drive hours to give birth
A major NSW birthing hospital is repeatedly going on “bypass”, forcing pregnant and labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres to Newcastle to give birth.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Victorian budget
Regional hospitals on wrong side of funding great divide
Under Victoria’s new activity-based funding formula, regional hospitals receive 6.8 per cent less than city hospitals for every procedure they perform.
- by Chip Le Grand
‘Absolutely devastated’: Central Coast’s only private maternity service to close
Gosford Private Hospital is closing its maternity services. It’s the latest in a string of private maternity hospital closures amid rising private healthcare costs and declining birth rates.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Healthcare
Australia could save $7 billion by turning homes into hospitals
Leonard’s home became his hospital, complete with his wife, his own bed and his dog.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Doctors at work
Doctors threaten mass resignation amid worsening crisis
Psychiatrists have warned that chronic understaffing of the public mental health system is risking patient safety as they fight for a 30 per cent pay rise.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
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Hospitals
The Sydney hospitals overspending by $9 million a month
Staff at three Sydney hospitals have threatened to take industrial action unless the NSW government reverses job cuts they say will put patients at risk.
- by Angus Thomson
Medical imaging delays add to bed lock pain at WA hospitals
Long wait times for medical imaging is putting lives at risk, says the Health Services Union WA.
- by Claire Ottaviano
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Perth
I spent five days in hospital waiting for an MRI. WA’s health system is at breaking point
It was on day four of trying to get an MRI as an inpatient at Fiona Stanley Hospital that one of my nurses broke down in tears in my cubicle.
- by Sophie McNeill
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