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.
Health
Toxic fish warning delayed
Defence repeatedly ignored pleas from Queensland Health to warn the public that fish were highly contaminated.
Cruel reality hits home
There is a reckoning due in this nation. Our aged-care system is broken, eroded by failures and aided by a collective delusion.
Begging for water on death’s door
John McMenamin lives in one of Adelaide’s better nursing homes but his family has taken drastic steps just to ensure he’s fed.
The dope on pharmaceuticals
Health organisations are raising awareness of the deadly risk of combining opioid pain medications and sleeping tablets.
How to do aged care right
Amid horror stories about the treatment of older Australians, the US has opened its first memory-care facility to take dementia patients back to the prime of life.
Reminiscence therapy at home
Reminiscence therapy can be done at home with dementia patients, using old photos, music and other props.
Price put on MRI promises
Every new MRI machine promised before the election will cost taxpayers $4.2 million over three years, new analysis shows.
Labor attacks LNP over donations
Queensland Labor has accused the LNP of being compromised by their acceptance of donations from major aged-care providers.
Hunt backdown on e-cigarettes
MPs have forced Health Minister Greg Hunt to commission research on the potential health benefits of e-cigarettes.
Freeze hit people in care: Wyatt
The minister concedes there was a funding freeze in a government measure for older Australians, days after denying a cut.
Oakden regulator drags its feet
Twelve former workers at the disgraced Oakden aged-care facility remain under investigation one year after the Adelaide site closed.
‘Hold care managers to account’
Senior managers in aged care need to be made personally accountable for failures in standards, an advocacy group says.
’Epidemic’ linked to benchtops
An initial audit of benchtop makers reveals 26 workers have the lung disease silicosis, at least six of them considered terminal.
Improving care to cost $3.5bn
It would cost up to $3.5bn a year to grant aged-care staff a 15 per cent pay rise and boost contact time with residents.
Aged-care system terminal
Providers say the industry will collapse without urgent reform.
Libs told to own crisis in health
Lives are at risk within South Australia’s health system as resources are stretched to breaking point, the nurses’ union says.
Operating charges prime concern
Aged-care operators are routinely accused of classifying residents to gain the most government funding.
Backdown on festival threat
Gladys Berejiklian has announced she will appoint a “panel” to look into music festivals and drug taking after two deaths at Penrith’s Defqon1.
Vic Libs pledge autism ‘revolution’
The Victorian Coalition has promised a ‘revolution’ in the way the state supports families living with autism.
Strawberry spiking spreads
Sewing needles have twice been found in WA-grown strawberries, as fruit-spiking cases are reported across the country.
Care crisis ignored for years
The nation was shocked when the extent of the Oakden aged-care scandal emerged.
Young trapped in dementia ward
Stroke victim Kirby Littley says the nursing home in which she was placed was totally uninterested in her.
Reward in berry needle hunt
A $100,000 reward has been offered for information on the Queensland strawberry saboteur.
Pressure on GP payments
A chronic illness trial through Health Care Homes has failed to attract 10 per cent of the expected patient numbers.
Young stranded in aged care
A key mission of the $22bn National Disability Insurance Scheme to rescue young people stuck in nursing homes is failing.
Ambulance staff ‘have PTSD’
Many of the nation’s ambulance officers are suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, new research shows.
Pay hike for pathology staff
Pathology workers will receive pay rises of up to 20 per cent after the Fair Work Commission found fault with their employer.
Cut your berries, copycat on loose
A bizarre copycat incident has prompted warnings that people should slice their strawberries until further notice.
Poor pay points to aged-care crisis
Nurses and personal care workers in the aged-care sector should be given pay rises that match their value, a new report says.
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