Hospitals in crisis
Anja gave birth on the side of the road. Listen to the triple-zero call
Maternity hospital closures are forcing labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres across “maternity deserts” to give birth.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Health officials scramble with mass resignation of state’s doctors
A metropolitan Sydney hospital will struggle to treat patients after more than half of the state’s hospital psychiatrists tendered their resignations.
- by Cindy Yin
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Health
Sydney’s EDs face record demand. Here’s where patients wait the longest
Staff at Sydney’s busiest hospital say a lack of space is leaving some patients stuck in emergency for days, four years after a $900 million spend on more beds.
- by Angus Thomson
Opinion
Cost of living
Don’t say the S-word out loud, but Australia secretly loves socialism
Our nation has long considered itself the land of the fair go. But as housing affordability and healthcare standards slip, are we kidding ourselves?
- by Gary Newman
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Hospitals
‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes
NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Hospitals
Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses, the hospital’s staff have warned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes
Half of psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations in the latest dispute between the state government and its workers.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
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Doctors at work
Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff, patient welfare concerns
The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Pregnancy
This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway
Women giving birth could be loaded into ambulances and raced 100km down the M1 from Monday because of a critical staffing shortage.
- by Kate Aubusson
Revealed: How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients
Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions, but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
- by Angus Thomson
Victorian hospitals baulk at health network overhaul
At least two health services have asked to be removed from proposed network, saying patient care will suffer.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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