IV crisis worsens with morphine supplies now low
Supplies of several crucial medicines are running short around the nation, such as liquid morphine products vital to ease the suffering of palliative care patients, including children.
Supplies of several crucial medicines are running short around the nation, such as liquid morphine products vital to ease the suffering of palliative care patients, including children.
Even in the immediate wake of her daughter’s murder, along with five others at Westfield Bondi Junction, Jade Young understood that the horrific events were more than a senseless rampage. This was a systemic failure.
Healthcare providers are paying up to ten times more for imported IV fluid as a shortage causes chaos in hospitals and calls mount for local manufacturing of critical medical supplies.
Cancer patients will have dramatically expanded access to groundbreaking clinical trials across Australia as a result of an extraordinary bequest by a wealthy benefactor couple.
Amid growing questions over the transparency of the response to the crisis, it has emerged that Australia is the only country experiencing a major supply shortage of IV fluid and a Sydney factory is exporting stock to NZ.
A landmark health meeting will be presented with shocking figures on the number of people with severe psychiatric conditions who are receiving few or no services in the community.
The biggest-ever study of its kind, led by Australian psychiatrists, has found the incidence of mental ill-health in young people has risen by 50pc in 15 years.
Australia’s peak health body says doctors aren’t getting information on saline shortages, despite the convening of a an interstate response group.
Even if it’s simply running in the background in a room, TV can be damaging for children.
The federal government’s priorities in mental health have come under heavy criticism as money is poured into programs that ‘lack efficacy and do not warrant public funding’.
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