Health Minister Mark Butler implored Healthscope and the insurers to “sit down and sort this out”,with almost half of insured Australians set to be impacted.
Half the state’s public psychiatrists have resigned as the Bondi Junction attack inquest shines a spotlight on chronically understaffed mental health units.
A review into the death of a one-year-old boy suffering from undiagnosed leukaemia has determined it was “reasonable” that he did not get a blood test at a Perth hospital.
Suzan Al Hulow and Ali Al-Khafaji’s baby son Amir died inside Al Hulow’s womb while in the care of the public hospital on March 22.
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.
Under Victoria’s new activity-based funding formula,regional hospitals receive 6.8 per cent less than city hospitals for every procedure they perform.
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.
Leonard’s home became his hospital,complete with his wife,his own bed and his dog.
Psychiatrists have warned that chronic understaffing of the public mental health system is risking patient safety as they fight for a 30 per cent pay rise.
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.
Long wait times for medical imaging is putting lives at risk,says the Health Services Union WA.