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The Northern Beaches Hospital is administered through a public-private partnership between NSW Health and Healthscope.

Baby dies during childbirth in latest Northern Beaches Hospital tragedy

The state’s most senior obstetrician is investigating the death of a newborn after an emergency at the troubled hospital.

  • Angus Thomson

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Danny and Elouise Massa, their son Joe, and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

The changes coming to NSW hospitals after Joe’s death at Northern Beaches Hospital

In an emotional meeting on Wednesday, Premier Chris Minns told Elouise and Danny Massa the government would make a number of changes in response to their son’s death.

  • Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
Elouise and Danny Massa holding a pair of their son Joe’s shoes in his favourite part of the family’s garden in Balgowlah. Their two year old son Joe died at Northern Beaches Hospital after not being treated straight away for hypovolemia. Balgowlah, NSW. February 20, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

‘We let Joe down’: Hospitals told to listen to parents after two-year-old’s death

Health Minister Ryan Park said the death of Joe Massa, 2, at Northern Beaches Hospital was “a result of failing” to listen to the concerns of his parents.

  • Angus Thomson and Nick Newling
Wollongong’s Yours and Owls festival.

First NSW music festival to allow pill testing revealed

The announcement marks a major win for drug reform advocates who have long called for pill testing in the state. 

  • Michael McGowan
Karen Webb, left, and two nurses at Bankstown hospital.

Top cop needs ‘critical’ evidence to pursue potential charges against Sydney nurses

Karen Webb said officers were still determining any possible charges against two nurses recorded on video allegedly making anti-Israeli threats.

  • Jessica McSweeney, Nick Newling, Sally Rawsthorne, Kayla Olaya and Kate Aubusson
Declan Lee, from Sydney’s northern beaches, was left on a hospital bathroom floor for several hours because staff were unable to lift him.

On the floor of a Sydney hospital bathroom, Declan lay stranded for hours

Advocates have requested an urgent meeting with the NSW health minister after hearing dozens of hospital horror stories.

  • Angus Thomson
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Janice and Bernie Fitzpatrick on a fundraising ride on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, in 2015.

Bernie waited months in hospital for a bed in aged care. It never came

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park says the federal government should build more aged care beds or start paying the states to care for residents stuck in hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
A productivity-enhancing reform agenda ought to be the focus in this year’s political campaigns.

Back to (or building) the future?

It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.

14/11/24 Generic signage showing Bulk Billing services. Photograph by Chris Hopkins

The Sydney suburbs missing out on free GP visits

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the collapse of bulk-billing was putting pressure on the state’s hospitals and urged the federal government to prioritise Medicare reform.

  • Angus Thomson
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park issued a dire warning about the state’s triple zero line.

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.

  • Cindy Yin

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