Victoria’s secret $50 million hospital top-up revealed
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Victoria’s secret $50 million hospital top-up revealed

The cost blowout – revealed under freedom of information laws – was blamed on inflation,but it further highlights the precarious state of health funding last year,when the government was within days of being unable to pay the bills.

  • byAnnika Smethurst andBroede Carmody

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Backlog of thousands of MRI scans threatens missed diagnoses
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Backlog of thousands of MRI scans threatens missed diagnoses

Up to 3000 MRI scans at Westmead Hospital are waiting up to two months to be processed,putting patients at risk of diagnosis and treatment delays.

  • byKate Aubusson
Hospitals,homes and hoons:Everything you need to know about ‘Dump Day’ 2024
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Hospitals,homes and hoons:Everything you need to know about ‘Dump Day’ 2024

More than a quarter of Victoria’s emergency patients are not being treated within the recommended time frames.

  • byBroede Carmody,Rachel Eddie,Kieran Rooney andPatrick Hatch
‘No one had the staff to let me have a baby’:Women forced to drive hours to give birth
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‘No one had the staff to let me have a baby’:Women forced to drive hours to give birth

A major NSW birthing hospital is repeatedly going on “bypass”,forcing pregnant and labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres to Newcastle to give birth.

  • byKate Aubusson
Man shot himself inside Perth emergency department after partner pronounced dead
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Man shot himself inside Perth emergency department after partner pronounced dead

A witness has claimed the man pulled out a homemade gun after his partner was pronounced dead by hospital staff.

  • byHolly Thompson andAmber Wilkinson
NSW has raised taxes on private health funds. Here’s what that means for premiums
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NSW has raised taxes on private health funds. Here’s what that means for premiums

Health fund HCF has agreed to cover the cost of their members staying in public hospitals to avoid a tax hike,which the sector says will force premiums higher.

  • byAngus Thomson
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Patients will pay price if NSW slugs private health insurers
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Patients will pay price if NSW slugs private health insurers

The NSW government is going after private health insurers,but the plan will effectively penalise policy-holders,which will have federal implications for Labor.

  • byDr Nick Coatsworth
The housing change that has these doctors furious
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The housing change that has these doctors furious

FIFO doctors raised concerns ranging from the distance between the hospital and accommodation to a lack of comfortable furniture and crockery.

  • byAngus Thomson
‘Absolutely devastated’:Central Coast’s only private maternity service to close
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‘Absolutely devastated’:Central Coast’s only private maternity service to close

Gosford Private Hospital is closing its maternity services. It’s the latest in a string of private maternity hospital closures amid rising private healthcare costs and declining birth rates.

  • byKate Aubusson
Australia could save $7 billion by turning homes into hospitals
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Australia could save $7 billion by turning homes into hospitals

Leonard’s home became his hospital,complete with his wife,his own bed and his dog.

  • byKate Aubusson
Kevin Bartlett’s wife Denise had a single wish after brain cancer treatment:to come home
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Kevin Bartlett’s wife Denise had a single wish after brain cancer treatment:to come home

The Bartletts are among a growing number of Australians who have accessed hospital in-home services,a potential solution to hospital bed shortages that offer patients a chance to heal in the comfort of a familiar environment.

  • byHenrietta Cook