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‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes
NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses, the hospital’s staff have warned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Hospitals in crisis
Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff, patient welfare concerns
The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.
- by Kate Aubusson
Revealed: How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients
Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions, but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
- by Angus Thomson
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Doctors revolt against medical college that sacked chair for speaking out
Dozens of members have complained to the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists about its treatment of a former chair spoke to this masthead about billing issues.
- by Henrietta Cook and Melissa Cunningham
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Mental health
These NSW doctors warned of a fractured system and now half have quit
Half the state’s public psychiatrists have resigned as the Bondi Junction attack inquest shines a spotlight on chronically understaffed mental health units.
- by Kate Aubusson
‘Red flags’: How to check if you’ve been a victim of a medical bill ‘double dip’
Australians who have had surgery in private hospitals are being urged to check their bills after a whistleblower alleged dozens of doctors have been engaging in systematic fraud and double-dipping.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Henrietta Cook
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Hospitals in crisis
Doctors threaten mass resignation amid worsening crisis
Psychiatrists have warned that chronic understaffing of the public mental health system is risking patient safety as they fight for a 30 per cent pay rise.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
Labor joins LNP in vowing no GP ‘patients tax’
Doctors’ groups have welcomed a bipartisan Qld election pledge to exempt GPs from payroll tax to keep patients’ costs down.
- by William Davis, Matt Dennien and Cameron Atfield
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Healthcare
Why this unhealthy trend may become an ill wind for Medicare
The growth in out-of-pocket costs to see a GP is a tangible sign that our world-beating health system is strained.
- by Matt Wade
AI is just what the overworked, burnt-out doctor ordered
Advocates of the use of artificial intelligence say the technology could transform a health system in crisis, by reducing wait lists and staff burnout.
- by Angus Delaney and Kayla Olaya
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