Professor Jayashri Kulkarni.The story behind Australia’s first women-only private mental health hospital is about safety. Founder Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, a long-serving public psychiatrist, had witnessed…
The NT Coroner says spit hoods should be banned after finding no evidence to justify their use by corrections officers. The NT has long permitted…
Monique Pearce.The promised wonders of the Federal Government’s urgent care clinics when they were first announced back in 2022 were a big deal in one…
After a decade in internal medicine, Dr Dulip Priyantha Wettasinghe made the radical move to a rare subspecialty: psychiatry with dual qualifications in old age…
A letter by 15 clinical directors of NSW public mental health services, sent in late 2023, did not completely surprise Dr Pramudie Gunaratne. The neuropsychiatrist…
This week, Australia’s rural doctors are celebrating. Almost 30 years since a rebel group of GPs quit the RACGP and founded ACRRM in pursuit of…
Two months ago, paediatrician Dr Catherine Boyd and 44 of her colleagues wrote to the NT Government warning against its plans to reinstate spit hoods…
*This story has been updated with a response from the Federal Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. A team of GPs on state salaries, meant…
This year, Dr Raymond Wong and his staff went through the stresses and strains of accreditation — that process designed to give patients, and the…
When Dr Joanna Payne started as a doctor in Port Hedland, WA, the first house she was provided for work “nearly got blown off with…
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