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    Tag: Hospitals

    Doctors and the stupid stuff — new campaign targets most ridiculous admin demands

    March 27, 2025

    The spectacle of doctors being dragged away from patients to order office supplies and geriatricians having to undergo a working-with-children check are being targeted in…

    Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals after toddler’s death

    March 27, 2025

    Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals under new NSW laws introduced in the wake of toddler Joe Massa’s death at Northern…

    Hearing in NSW psychiatrist dispute delayed over economic impact evidence

    March 24, 2025

    A hearing into the dispute between psychiatrists and the NSW Government has been adjourned to April after a disagreement over evidence submissions on economic modelling.…

    Let me ask this question: How productive has the patient safety movement been?

    March 22, 2025

    “Tragedy.” “Disaster.” “Incompetence.” Serious adverse events in healthcare create emotive news, inspire sympathy and anger, and can trigger sadness and frustration in healthcare providers. Balancing…

    ‘There is this narrative around — it’s just lazy doctors’: The true story of ambulance ramping and ED deaths

    March 18, 2025

    Dr Megan Brooks fronted a parliamentary select committee last week. Her testimony, which took about 45 minutes, was about ambulance ramping, the spectacle of patients…

    GP-turned-MP brands privately run public hospital a ‘failed experiment’ following two deaths

    March 17, 2025

    The beleaguered public but privately-run Northern Beaches Hospital is to go under the microscope again following the deaths of a toddler and newborn.  But GP…

    Psychiatrists and the NSW Govt meet in court — can this finally end their battle?

    March 17, 2025

    Doctors and the NSW Government will stand before the state’s Industrial Relations Commission this week in an attempt to solve their drawn-out dispute over public…

    Junior doctors reach $175 million agreement over unpaid overtime after four-year legal battle

    March 14, 2025

    Current and former junior doctors in Victoria have reached a $175 million in-principle agreement with the State Government over unpaid overtime — four years after…

    Don’t blame inhalers! Medicine’s real sources of greenhouse gas emissions

    March 6, 2025

    Laundry, catering and even outsourced accounting services are among the top 10 contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the health system, according to analysis led…

    GPs need ‘prompt and complete’ discharge summaries: coroner

    February 28, 2025

    A coroner has again flagged the importance of discharge summaries being “promptly communicated” to GPs following the death of a patient from prescription drug toxicity.…

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    GPs need 'prompt and complete' discharge summaries: coroner

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