Surgery on wrong site and retained dressings among ‘record’ number of medical errors
Lack of recognition of clinical deterioration made up one third of all sentinel events and half of paediatric events over 12 months, a Victorian report…
Tag: Hospitals
Hospitals ‘within days’ of being unable to pay thousands of doctors, new FOI documents reveal
Victoria’s hospitals came within days of being unable to pay staff or creditors, prompting the health minister to request $422 million be urgently pumped into…
ED chaos, men in suits and car washes: Longstanding emergency doctor on where it’s all gone wrong
Dr Phillip Kay has spent decades trying to resolve the ever-growing “chaos and blockages” that have beset EDs and hospitals across Australia. He is now…
Underground trains rendering hospital MRI scans unreliable: Melbourne’s $180 million headache
What happens when someone has the bright idea to build an underground rail network just 20 metres beneath the foundations of your city’s hospital precinct?…
Doctor says govt telling ‘porky pies’ over IV fluid shortage despite improving supply
An “embarrassing” shortage of IV fluids appears to be resolving, but at least one doctor is blaming bureaucratic bungling rather than international supply issues. State…
Should doctors wear body cams for protection against violent patients?
Body cams in hospitals — is this the coming thing in the attempts to tackle the waves of violence faced by doctors and their staff?…
Uber driver, refugee, surgeon and now aspiring GP — meet Dr Karim Amani
“I was operating on a militia person when his colleagues came inside the operating theatre with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. “They did not respect anything…
Legal loss for obstetrician who sued colleagues for ‘cartel’ conduct over their on-call roster
An obstetrician who sued six colleagues for millions of dollars under anti-cartel laws after they excluded him from their on-call roster has lost his legal…
Scabies treatments scarce as outbreak spreads to four hospitals
A scabies outbreak has spread to four NSW hospitals, with dozens of health staff infected amid a national shortage of treatments for the infection. The…
Aussie-wide immunotherapy program launched for infants with peanut allergy
Free oral immunotherapy will be offered to infants with peanut allergy nationwide under the first Australian treatment program of its kind outside of a clinical…
