Expert panel to guide ‘incredibly broad’ state health inquiry
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Expert panel to guide ‘incredibly broad’ state health inquiry

The funding inquiry has received more than 238 submissions from healthcare services and other stakeholders,totalling more than 5300 pages.

  • byMary Ward

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Nurses revolt against staffing changes as St Vincent’s confirms financial woes
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Nurses revolt against staffing changes as St Vincent’s confirms financial woes

Changes to staff allocations will affect some of their most vulnerable patients,say nurses.

  • byAngus Thomson
WA nurses’ union forms new party as health looms large over 2025 election
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WA nurses’ union forms new party as health looms large over 2025 election

Nurses and Midwives WA candidates will run at the 2025 state election on a platform of improving the health system.

  • byMichael Genovese andGary Adshead
The Sydney hospital on its last warning
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The Sydney hospital on its last warning

Junior doctors are dangerously exhausted and senior staff are too busy to train them at Concord Hospital’s troubled radiology department.

  • byAngus Thomson
Paramedic pay dispute threatens NYE emergency response

Paramedic pay dispute threatens NYE emergency response

Health Minister Ryan Park warns parliament may be recalled to pass legislation to stop paramedics crippling the triple zero network.

  • byMichael McGowan andLaura Banks
‘My life changed for the worse that day’:Why Julie can’t go to work any more

‘My life changed for the worse that day’:Why Julie can’t go to work any more

Nurse Julie Carey had witnessed many acts of violence and aggression by patients. But after an incident in January,she could no longer set foot inside her hospital.

  • byLaura Banks andAngus Thomson
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Why our health system needs its own emergency care

Why our health system needs its own emergency care

NSW citizens now spend a median three hours and 36 minutes in hospital emergency departments,the longest on record.

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363,251 calls in three months:Ambulances,emergency departments full to the brim
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363,251 calls in three months:Ambulances,emergency departments full to the brim

The continued strain on frontline workers has prompted the state government to set up a taskforce charged with slashing emergency department wait times.

  • byAngus Thomson
Premiers push for more hospital funding as elective surgery wait times rise

Premiers push for more hospital funding as elective surgery wait times rise

A potential funding fix on health at national cabinet on Wednesday comes amid open disputes on GST and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

  • byDavid Crowe andNatassia Chrysanthos
‘Paramedics will shut down triple 0’:Boycott to go ahead as pay negotiations stall

‘Paramedics will shut down triple 0’:Boycott to go ahead as pay negotiations stall

The health minister warns NSW’s triple zero system will “collapse” on New Year’s Eve,with 2000 paramedics refusing to renew their licences over deadlocked pay negotiations.

  • byLaura Banks
‘Patients are going to die’:Compo claims deplete paramedic workforce
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‘Patients are going to die’:Compo claims deplete paramedic workforce

In the past two years,the job has made 351 paramedics sick. Here,one recalls the trauma of not being able to reach patients in time to save their lives.

  • byLaura Banks