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Industrial relations
The Sydney hospitals overspending by $9 million a month
Staff at three Sydney hospitals have threatened to take industrial action unless the NSW government reverses job cuts they say will put patients at risk.
- by Angus Thomson
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‘A huge hole’: Family hopes man’s death after knee surgery sparks change
Kenneth Toll was one of three patients to die after receiving bilateral knee replacement surgery from a NSW orthopaedic surgeon, a five-day inquest heard.
- by Angus Thomson
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Healthcare
Private hospitals suspending ‘unprofitable’ surgeries as stoush with insurers deepens
One surgeon said many private hospitals were cutting theatre lists for plastic, breast and maxillofacial surgeons.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Henrietta Cook
Ken went into hospital for knee surgery. Three days later, he was dead
An inquest is examining the events leading to the death of a 62-year-old grandfather following a routine procedure at a private hospital in regional NSW.
- by Angus Thomson
‘Significant impact on patients’: NSW nurses to strike for 24 hours
The state’s health system will be brought to a standstill for the second time this month after nurses voted to return to the picket line.
- by Angus Thomson
Medical imaging delays add to bed lock pain at WA hospitals
Long wait times for medical imaging is putting lives at risk, says the Health Services Union WA.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Opinion
Hospitals in crisis
I spent five days in hospital waiting for an MRI. WA’s health system is at breaking point
It was on day four of trying to get an MRI as an inpatient at Fiona Stanley Hospital that one of my nurses broke down in tears in my cubicle.
- by Sophie McNeill
The Sydney suburbs where patients wait the longest for an ambulance revealed
Ambulances and emergency departments are under more pressure than ever, data released on Wednesday reveals. See how your suburb stacks up.
- by Angus Thomson
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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Women's health
Doctors cancel gynaecology appointments, surgeries over safety fears
Obstetricians and gynaecologists at two NSW hospitals said they would only treat urgent cases until more doctors were hired to ease pressure on burnt-out staff.
- by Angus Thomson
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Healthcare
Victorian hospital blunders led to 167 patient deaths
Operating on the wrong part of a patient’s body and fatal medication errors were among the scores of serious events recorded in Victorian hospitals in 2022-23.
- by Henrietta Cook
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