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The Triple Zero call from Soli Adams’ birth on the side of the Princes Highway in 2021.

Anja gave birth on the side of the road. Listen to the triple-zero call

Maternity hospital closures are forcing labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres across “maternity deserts” to give birth.

  • Kate Aubusson

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NSW Health Minister Ryan Park issued a dire warning about the state’s triple zero line.

Health officials scramble with mass resignation of state’s doctors

A metropolitan Sydney hospital will struggle to treat patients after more than half of the state’s hospital psychiatrists tendered their resignations.

  • Cindy Yin
Composite image for Westmead Hospital story.

Sydney’s EDs face record demand. Here’s where patients wait the longest

Staff at Sydney’s busiest hospital say a lack of space is leaving some patients stuck in emergency for days, four years after a $900 million spend on more beds.

  • Angus Thomson
Equalisation and appropriation clauses can help ensure inheritances are shared as intended.

Don’t say the S-word out loud, but Australia secretly loves socialism

Our nation has long considered itself the land of the fair go. But as housing affordability and healthcare standards slip, are we kidding ourselves?

  • Gary Newman
Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles. 

‘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.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Nepean Hospital has a backlog of 17,000 scans. 

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.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Index composite image for story on half of psychiatrists in NSW tendering their resignations.

Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes

Half of psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations in the latest dispute between the state government and its workers.

  • Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
If the impasse cannot be resolved by Monday, Gosford Hospital’s obstetrics and gynaecology services risk going on bypass.

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.

  • Kate Aubusson
Doctors say women are waiting more than a year to see a gynaecologist or obstetrician at Gosford Hospital.

This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway

Women giving birth could be loaded into ambulances and raced 100km down the M1 from Monday because of a critical staffing shortage.

  • Kate Aubusson
Bureau of Health Information data July - September 2024

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.

  • Angus Thomson

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