Private hospital cover hits 11-year low
The proportion of the population with private hospital cover is the lowest it has been in 11 years.
The proportion of the population with private hospital cover is the lowest it has been in 11 years.
A push for capital works at Royal Adelaide Hospital to ease chronic overcrowding has all but been ruled out.
Scott Morrison says he will consider a call for a royal commission into abuse of people with a disability.
A significant overuse of psychotropic medication on dementia sufferers has resulted in ‘increased rates of death’.
Up to 300 refugees have obtained recommendations from treating doctors to enable them to be transferred to Australia.
Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles has backed a high-profile discrimination finding against his department.
The draining of paediatric cardiac services at a Sydney children’s hospital may erupt as an issue during the state poll campaign.
More than half of all aged-care providers have missed a deadline to provide a list of incidents of abuse and neglect.
A former Queensland politician was awarded $1.45m compo after the state’s largest hospital refused to employ him.
Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt has called on parliament to turn its attention to the child suicide crisis in the Kimberley.
Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt says a “nine-to-five” mentality is unworkable in the fight against youth suicide.
The PM has pledged an extra $1800 to every Australian living in aged care as the country braces for some disturbing revelations.
Scott Morrison has announced $3m in additional mental health support for areas of Queensland affected by flooding.
Paramedics have warned of a ‘looming disaster’ after ambulances were unable to deliver patients to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
More than a third of the money spent by pharmaceutical companies promoting drugs to doctors may have gone unreported.
Medicare rebates totalling $110m sit unclaimed due to 700,000 Australians not registering their bank account details.
The Coalition’s $2bn savings drive is taking a savage toll on those in the aged care sector, despite denials from the Prime Minister.
Additional taxpayer-funded medical services may be provided to asylum-seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
A further 20 Medicare-funded MRI machines have been promised by the Morrison government.
The federal government’s $2 billion My Health Record platform is in need of a fundamental overhaul, experts say.
A proposed change to the oversight of medical treatment for asylum-seekers has yet to gain the support of doctors.
NSW Labor has vowed to restore paediatric cardiac services at the Sydney Children’s Hospital.
The ‘troubling’ behaviour of governments should be made public to put an end to cost-shifting, the Productivity Commission says.
The largest for-profit aged-care providers in the country want the ability to charge any ‘private fee’.
A Newspoll has found 56 per cent of people in NSW believe pill testing should be permitted at music festivals.
The NSW opposition wants the government to refer a proposed takeover of the Northern Beaches Hospital to the FIRB.
The My Health Record will have a lower participation rate than government officials expected with the formal opt-out period ending today.
The agency responsible for carrying out “spot checks” on nursing homes did not make a single visit after 5pm in 18 months.
A flawed electronic medical records system implemented by South Australia’s former Labor government has been abandoned.
A blind woman in a Queensland nursing home has been sedated on a potent combination of psychotropic drugs.
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