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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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- Opinion
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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
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
- Opinion
- Healthcare
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
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
Nightclub barons who owned Toff in Town, Revolver and Inflation now $4.6m richer
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
‘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
‘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
‘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
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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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