The medical fraternity says funding for the proposed facility would be better spent plugging a GP shortage in rural communities.
The doctors’ union has been given less than 24 hours to back down on its planned three-day strike or risk derailing a deal for resigning psychiatrists.
Bec was admitted to hospital almost 100 times from age 19. There was nowhere safe for her to get better.
The incident occurred months after health authorities discovered the GP’s clinic had incorrectly stored vaccines,potentially leaving more than 1000 patients unprotected against diseases.
Rachel’s long-term fears for her boy became reality. For Danijela and son William,the same feelings are ever-present.
Doctors are warning Australians to temper their expectations as they fear patients will be disappointed when most city clinics keep charging gap fees.
Reforms designed to bring Victoria’s assisted dying framework in line with other states will be put to a conscience vote by the year’s end.
Extremely unwell patients held against their will at a western Sydney hospital are waiting for days to see a psychiatrist.
Severely ill and distressed patients are waiting three and a half days in emergency for mental health beds that don’t exist in a shocking escalation of the state’s psychiatrist workforce crisis.
NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.