Healthcare
Labor, Libs in tug-of-war over $1.8bn hospital plan as election looms
The parties have come to blows over the contentious women’s and babies hospital after the Liberal leader wrote to construction giant Webuild vowing to tear up a deal.
- by Jesinta Burton
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The hospital where you can have an emergency only during business hours
Patients used to turn up in the back of a ute, needing urgent help for a snakebite or farm injury. Now they can only do so between 8am and 5.30pm.
- by Catherine Naylor
This virus is surging in China. In NSW, it’s already passed
Cases of human metapneumovirus have declined in NSW, while health authorities continue to monitor elevated COVID infections over the festive period.
- by Angus Thomson
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Health
Sydney’s EDs face record demand. Here’s where patients wait the longest
Staff at Sydney’s busiest hospital say a lack of space is leaving some patients stuck in emergency for days, four years after a $900 million spend on more beds.
- by Angus Thomson
Health service charged over patient’s death inside Geelong psych unit
Barwon Health has faced court after a woman took her own life while undergoing treatment at the Swanston Centre in Geelong, an acute psychiatric unit.
- by Melissa Cunningham
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Healthcare
The common virus fuelling a ‘tsunami’ of cancers, particularly in men
Health experts are warning of a “tsunami” of a rare cancer, with overall cases more than tripling over the past two decades.
- by Henrietta Cook
‘It really is simple’: Four top doctors share the secret to a healthy life
It can be difficult in today’s social media-driven age to sort fact from false information when it comes to being healthy.
- by Liam Mannix and Henrietta Cook
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Hospitals
‘Opera House on your doorstep’: Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes
NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Editorial
Healthcare
Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women
Tackling medical misogyny is about ensuring the wellbeing of a population Australia cannot afford to lose.
- The Herald's View
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Healthcare
RMH scandal deepens with claims surgeons rorting WorkCover, private health insurers
The state’s corruption commission is investigating claims that surgeons at one of the country’s top hospitals fraudulently billed WorkCover and private health funds.
- by Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
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Hospitals
Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses, the hospital’s staff have warned.
- by Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson