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Government warned two years ago about allegations surgeons ripping off WorkCover
The news comes after The Age revealed IBAC is combing through WorkCover bills, not just TAC invoices, as part of its probe into a handful of surgeons at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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WA nurses’ union members back new government pay deal
The new deal avoids an ugly showdown between Labor and WA’s biggest union ahead of the March state election.
- by Cameron Myles
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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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Babies
Cook government moves to lock in builders for new women’s and babies’ hospital before March poll
The location for the replacement of the ageing King Edward Memorial Hospital is shaping as a key election battle.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Royal Melbourne Hospital looks at whistleblower overhaul after fraud probe revealed
The move follows revelations in this masthead that Victoria’s corruption watchdog is investigating a handful of surgeons for alleged fraudulent billing.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
TAC minister in the dark on investigation into surgeons
The Age has revealed the state’s anti-corruption watchdog is investigating some surgeons at the Royal Melbourne Hospital over allegations they billed the TAC for medical procedures never carried out.
- by Carla Jaeger
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IBAC investigating claims surgeons billed TAC for nonexistent procedures
The state’s corruption commission is investigating explosive allegations that surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital fraudulently claimed fees for procedures that were never carried out.
- by Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
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These nurses stopped cleaning. Then the hospital docked their pay
As stacks of dirty linen and hospital waste piled up, seven private hospitals issued their nurses and midwives with a stern warning.
- by Angus Thomson
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
Victorian hospitals baulk at health network overhaul
At least two health services have asked to be removed from proposed network, saying patient care will suffer.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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