Ramsay Health Care
Hospital giant picks up ‘crown jewel’ from Healthscope collapse
The sale of the lucrative Canberra private hospital highlights just how many of Healthscope’s hospitals are barely viable and could face closure nationwide.
- Colin Kruger
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Private hospital fails in bid to block new medical centre
Work is expected to start in January on a new medical centre across the road from Queensland’s largest private hospital, which lost its Supreme Court appeal this week to stop it being built.
- Cameron Atfield
New mother’s death leads to criminal charges against Victorian health giant
WorkSafe have charged the operators of Mitcham Private Hospital over Sarah Skillington’s death just weeks after giving birth.
- Hannah Hammoud
‘The truth should come’: Probe begins into toddler’s death in WA hospital
Sandipan Dhar died at Ramsay Health Care’s Joondalup Health Campus on March 24 due to complications from a common blood cancer.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Hospitals in crisis
Father of Perth toddler who died with undiagnosed leukaemia welcomes coronial inquest
A review into the death of a one-year-old boy suffering from undiagnosed leukaemia has determined it was “reasonable” that he did not get a blood test at a Perth hospital.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Hospitals
Grieving parents were not consulted during review into son’s death at Joondalup hospital
Suzan Al Hulow and Ali Al-Khafaji’s baby son Amir died inside Al Hulow’s womb while in the care of the public hospital on March 22.
- Hamish Hastie
Parents sue after alleged botched delivery leaves baby profoundly disabled
Blood and oxygen stopped flowing to the baby girl’s brain during her birth. Now she’s got cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an intellectual disability.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Minister vows to assess bulk-billing as Joondalup Hospital probe begins
The health department will join a review of hospital services, and what people pay for GPs in Perth’s north will be scrutinised, after the death of toddler Sandipan Dhar.
- Jesinta Burton
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- World markets
Big miners, energy sector drag ASX to a loss
The Australian sharemarket slid on Tuesday, reflecting a mixed trading session on Wall Street after a US manufacturing report suggested its economy is slowing.
- Jessica Yun and Millie Muroi
Former Telstra boss David Thodey named new Sydney University chancellor
Thodey is best known as the former boss of the telco giant and currently chairs Ramsay Health Care and technology company Xero.
- Daniella White
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