Waiting room chairs,hallways and overflow tents:If you’ve been to a NSW hospital this year,you know the challenge facing the health minister.
The health department will join a review of hospital services,and what people pay for GPs in Perth’s north will be scrutinised,after the death of toddler Sandipan Dhar.
A couple have described their harrowing weeks trying to get basic medical testing done on their dying little son,right up until his final hours in hospital.
Sandipan Dhar’s parents rushed their 21-month-old to Joondalup Health Campus in March with a high fever that would not settle after several trips to a GP practice.
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Wrong meds,botched surgeries and “sentinel events”:WA’s health system has harboured a growth in clinical errors resulting in serious harm and even death.
Health Minister Mark Butler said the 58 existing urgent care clinics were already making a difference for patients needing walk-in medical treatment.
In the past 10 years,referrals to Child Development Service paediatricians have risen by 132 per cent.
When St John WA opened the doors to its urgent care clinics across suburban Perth to ease demand on overrun emergency departments,all you needed was your Medicare card.
A record number of patients with the most serious,life-threatening conditions were treated by paramedics and emergency departments in the last quarter of 2023.
Strict vaccination rules require hospital workers to have at least one booster shot,but easing the lingering mandate would bring Victoria in line with other states,and has been backed by vaccine experts.