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Review slams plans, budgets for flawed Queensland hospital projects
At one construction site, an impasse over a tree is costing $54,000 a day. At another, no-one realised the entire power system would have to be upgraded.
- Tim Arvier
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In a medical crisis, who will speak for you? Here’s how people plan ahead
It can happen in instant. When you can’t make decisions about your own medical treatment, who steps into your shoes? And how do doctors know what you want (and don’t want)?
- Nick Newling and Felicity Lewis
‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit
The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.
- Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
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Royal Children’s Hospital backs down on staffing cuts to kids’ cancer centre
Three days after The Age revealed the plan to cut 13 positions, the hospital confirmed the roles have now been saved.
- Broede Carmody and Alexander Darling
‘I’m waiting for him to come home’: Private hospital under fire over 17-year-old’s sudden death
Three families whose children died at privately run emergency departments overseen by financially stricken Healthscope have spoken out about their ordeals.
- Christine Ahern and Natalie Clancy
Royal Children’s Hospital’s key donors hit back at claims they caused lay-offs
Donors to the Royal Children’s Hospital say they are committed to ensuring programs in the cancer centre continue to be funded.
- Broede Carmody, Brittany Busch and Ashleigh McMillan
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‘Appalling act’: Royal Children’s Hospital to slash cancer centre jobs on eve of charity appeal
The Children’s Cancer Centre will lose as many as 10 full-time equivalent roles, including dedicated mental health workers, in a move staff have described as devastating.
- Broede Carmody
In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming
Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.
- Angus Thomson
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Doctors like me pay a heavy price to do our jobs. Pay us what we’re worth
Doctors spend many years and thousands of dollars to become qualified. There are good reasons why they’re striking for more money.
- Anonymous
‘Win for the northern beaches’: Community celebrates as embattled hospital operator flags exit
Taxpayers should not reward Healthscope’s mismanagement of Northern Beaches Hospital with a profit, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said.
- Angus Thomson and Max Maddison