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Healthscope boss Tino La Spina is leading a bid to buy the hospital group and turn it into a not-for-profit operator.

More casualties expected as ailing Healthscope prepares for sale

Brookfield, the $1 trillion financial giant, lost billions after failing to deal with Healthscope’s lenders and landlords. It is now facing off for a painful reckoning.

  • Colin Kruger

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Mount Hospital on Mount Street, Perth.

48 beds in a Perth hospital have sat empty for six months over fire safety

The Mount Hospital’s $35 million redevelopment, which included the new 35-bed Karri ward and 13-bay day of surgery admission area, was completed in May.

  • Hamish Hastie
The NSW government has seized control of the Northern Beaches Hospital, leaving the future of private services in doubt.

Northern Beaches Hospital is in public hands. Here’s what happens next

The deal is done, but there are still many questions about how the hospital will operate under public control. We break down just a few.

  • Angus Thomson
The end of NSH’s controversial private-public partnership has raised concerns about the future of the hospital’s private services.

Fate of private services hangs in the balance at Northern Beaches Hospital

A plan expected to be unveiled on Tuesday is likely to affect more than 211,000 people with private health insurance.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
The doctors’ union, ASMOF NSW, wants SafeWork NSW to conduct an investigation into unsafe staffing levels at Northern Beaches Hospital.

The stress on NSW hospitals is real, and should be taken seriously

While the statewide picture is grim, alarm bells are sounding loudly at one of the most controversial institutions: the Northern Beaches Hospital.

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The doctors’ union, ASMOF NSW, wants SafeWork NSW to conduct an investigation into unsafe staffing levels at Northern Beaches Hospital.

‘Live risk of serious injury, death’: SafeWork accused of failing to act at Northern Beaches Hospital

Doctors at Northern Beaches Hospital have raised the alarm over dangerous understaffing, which puts patients at risk of medical errors in the emergency department and wards.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Healthscope chief executive Tino La Spina says it is business as usual for the country’s second-largest hospital operator despite the collapse into administration.

As suitors circle Healthscope, its management mulls a different path

Bidders are lining up for the assets of Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator, but one important suitor will be missing this week.

  • Colin Kruger
Healthscope hospital pic.

‘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
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

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