Insurance reforms may miss deadline
The main pillar of the Morrison government’s health insurance reforms could miss the planned start date next April.
Health
One-third of unplanned pregnancies are aborted
Almost a third of unplanned pregnancies in Australia end in abortion, survey data reveals.
Cash ‘will not solve’ all health problems
A review of the $9bn mental health funding system should not be used as an excuse for more money without reform, an expert says.
‘Disease of poverty’ still kills 100 a year
Children are having open heart surgery as a result of a preventable illness now found only in indigenous communities.
Test cases risk NDIS blowout
A decision to force the NDIA to fund registered nurses for diabetics would blow the budget by up to $1.6bn each year.
A dearth of pathologists sends recruiters offshore
State governments are recruiting forensic pathologists from overseas with few locals prepared to invest in 12 years of study.
A will to heal the world
Peter Doherty travels the world. His mission? To save the human race from disease.
Taxes waived for buyers on NDIS
The tax office has rewritten its own advice on how to treat National Disability Insurance Scheme housing payments.
Labor targets hospital plan delay
Labor has accused the SA government of delaying the rollout of a winter demand plan for the state’s public hospitals by two months.
Surgery risk for obese patients
Being overweight increases the risk of complications after joint replacement surgery, according to new data.
Nurses ‘sick and tired’ of inaction
Overcrowding that has plagued the Royal Adelaide Hospital since it opened a year ago shows no sign of easing.
Coalition’s $8m home-care ads ‘dishonest’
The Coalition spent $8 million on an ad campaign to promote its age-care program even as waiting lists were already blowing out.
Patients’ heavy records cost hospital $11m
About 2000 medical records will continue to be delivered daily to the $2.4bn Royal Adelaide Hospital from private storage sites.
Tax bill for NDIS stroke victim
A former teacher placed in a nursing home in her late 20s after two strokes may be taxed for living in her own home.
What we really think of hospitals
Hospitals will be judged by their patients and the results published online by insurer Medibank.
Kidney cancer therapy works but cost is a killer
Darryl Black was told he had just three months to live. That was almost four years ago.
Nurses demanding proof of additional hospital beds
The nurses’ union wants details about hospital beds in regional South Australia before it backs away from industrial action.
Cabinet kicks Medicare can down the road
Fixing the archaic Medicare, veterans and aged-care payments system will be left to whoever wins the next election.
Emergency nurses set to walk off
More than 1000 nurses could walk off the job next week as emergency departments across Adelaide continue to be stretched.
Patients slugged $1.4bn in private gap fees
Public hospital patients are paying out $1.4bn in private gap fees a year as the states rely on insurers to prop up their budgets.
$600m blown on consultants
The NDIA has spent more than half a billion dollars in one year on consultants, contractors and outsourced staff, documents show.
Smelter city has its lead in the air
New data has raised concern among environmental regulators and toxicology experts.
Demand for mental care soars: Medibank
Medibank covered about $5.5 million worth of mental health care in the first three months of an initiative to increasing access.
Suicide rate rises to highest in a decade
More than 3000 Australians took their own lives last year.
Care for aged ‘not about numbers’
Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles has warned aged care is “more than just a numbers game”.
NDIA tosses dice on ‘values’ campaign
The agency running the National Disability Insurance Scheme has spent at least $150,000 on a campaign to promote staff values.
$52m set aside to inoculate teens for free
Teenagers will be offered a free vaccination against four strains of meningococcal from April.
Billions in savings from the margins
A multi-billion turnaround in budget fortunes for the Coalition has come partly at the expense of people at the margins.
Telstra Health’s $50m cancer delay
Telstra Health is set to lose $50 million of its $220m government contract to build a national cancer-screening register.
Parties in ‘arms race’ for MRIs
Major parties have been accused of entering an MRI machine “arms race”.
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