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Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles. 

‘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.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson

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Smile Squad worker Jacqui Pistone is among the dental and oral health therapists, mostly women, seeking a pay rise from the Victorian government.

Frown force: Schoolchildren the secret weapon in dental workers’ better pay push

Dental therapists say they’ve been left with no choice but to get their small patients to ‘dob the government in’ to mum and dad as part of an industrial campaign.

  • Broede Carmody
Medicinal cannabis being grown in September 2024 at Victorian cultivator ECS Botanics.

Cannabis Inc: Australia’s booming medicinal weed industry

Australia’s medicinal cannabis industry has taken boomed since legalisation in 2016 – but its growth is raising questions for many in the health sector.

Doctors from the UK, Ireland and New Zealand will be fast-tracked to work in Australia in changes designed to address nationwide GP shortages.

Doctors from three countries fast-tracked to treat Australian patients

The move has infuriated the GP college, which says bypassing existing checks and balances could come at the expense of patient safety.

  • Angus Thomson

Older doctors facing mandatory health checks as complaints surge

The Medical Board of Australia has released new data showing doctors over 70 are 81 per cent more likely to be the subject of a complaint than their younger counterparts.

  • Henrietta Cook
The surgeon was suspended for three months in 2022.

Surgeon suspended for using patient ‘as a prop’ now operating under a new name

Colorectal surgeon Gary McKay legally changed his name to Barry McCabe this year, but a record of previous findings against him did not appear until the Herald inquired.

  • Michael Koziol
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The Chiropractic Board of Australia has reintroduced a ban on practitioners manipulating the spines of babies.

‘It’s about safety’: Chiropractors once again banned from manipulating babies’ spines

The Chiropractic Board of Australia has reinstated its interim ban on practitioners manipulating the spines of children after public outcry and political pressure.

  • Henrietta Cook
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler

Health minister intervenes in chiropractors’ decision to allow spinal manipulation of babies

Mark Butler is seeking an urgent explanation from the Chiropractic Board of Australia after its controversial decision to allow practitioners to recommence spinal manipulations on babies.

  • Henrietta Cook
Dr Hershel Goldman.

Circumcision doctor accused of ‘amputation’ fails to have ban lifted amid appeal

One of Hershel Goldman’s newborn patients suffered an “amputation or partial amputation” of his penis, a tribunal heard, while another baby needed a blood transfusion.

  • Henrietta Cook
Dr Hershel Goldman.

Prolific circumcision doctor banned from performing the surgery

The Medical Board of Australia has placed a series of conditions on the registration of Melbourne doctor Hershel Goldman.

  • Henrietta Cook

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