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‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.

  • Colin Kruger

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Former NSW auditor-general Tony Harris.

Healthscope’s ills point to unhealthy connection between public patients and private profit

NSW has been privatising government services since the early ’90s. It has cost taxpayers billions.

  • Tony Harris
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
Northern Beaches Hospital

Banks step in to keep Healthscope running as receivers appointed

The Minns government is under increasing pressure to buy back the Northern Beaches Hospital after its major private hospital operator went into receivership.

  • Kate Aubusson and Colin Kruger
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Monika and Camillo Ippoliti sold their CBD home-office last week for $4.55 million after a private auction in the couple’s living room.

  • Nicole Lindsay
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Composite image of the Massa family and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park.

‘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.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
James Tsindos’ family (left to right) sisters Elpida (in black), Kristina, and Georgia (in white)  mother Venetia (holding a picture of James) and father Harry Tsindos, at home. 17 year old James Tsindos died in 2021 after going to Holmesglen Private Hospital.

‘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.

  • Christine Ahern and Natalie Clancy
Northern Beaches Hospital is partly operated by Healthscope.

‘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.

  • Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
Healthscope nurses and midwives walking off the job in November to demand a 15 per cent pay rise.

Major Australian healthcare provider can’t pay bills with time running out

A bad case of COVID-19 is not the only ailment which has brought a major hospital operator - with 17,000 staff - to the brink of collapse.

  • Colin Kruger

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