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Beds were removed from Blacktown Hospital on Thursday amid the doctors’ strike.

In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming

Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.

  • Angus Thomson

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Index composite tearout of locum doctor job advertisements during three-day strike by members of the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF) NSW

Emergency beds closed, doctors offered $2000 a day to work as strike begins

Around 370 patients had elective surgeries cancelled as more than 3500 doctors walked off the job on Tuesday.

  • Angus Thomson

The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike

Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.

  • Angus Thomson
Royal North Shore is among the Sydney hospitals expected to be majorly impacted by the strike.

‘Jeopardise patient safety’: Plea to doctors over three-day strike

The union says staff levels will not drop below public holiday levels, but the health minister says the strike will jeopardise patient safety.

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Elouise and Danny Massa, and their son Joe (left).

‘It hasn’t worked for Joe’: The law change that will end the Northern Beaches Hospital model

The parents of Joe, who died at the controversial hospital, have welcomed a major shake-up that will reset “our moral compass”.

  • Michael McGowan, Angus Thomson and Frances Howe
Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig, Health Minister Ryan Park and Attorney-General Michael Daley.

Revealed: The NSW ministers who used drivers for family holidays

Both sides of the political divide will be trying to out-do each other over use of taxpayer-funded chauffeurs.

  • Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith
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NSW Government’s pill testing trial site at the Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong.

‘Inherent contradiction’: Inside the tent where drugs are legal

A site tucked away near a music festival’s entrance let revellers test for the first time in NSW if the pills they had bought were ‘safe’.

  • Angus Thomson
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
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

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