Managers are finally cleaning up their act on junior doctor rostering and staffing after another class action settlement, says a lawyer who has worked on…
Psychiatrist and TV presenter Dr Mark Cross knows the mental health system from both sides, as a clinician and a patient. In his book Mental…
This story has been corrected. See footnote below. A coroner has blamed an “input error” involving handwritten medication charts for the death of a patient…
Australia is facing a surge in hospital presentations in older adults. Between 2015–16 and 2019-20, hospitalisations among people aged 75-84 increased by an average of…
Dr Jason Mak is one of nine O&G consultants who have withdrawn non-urgent gynaecological care until staffing levels in their maternity unit are fixed. The…
O&Gs say they are so concerned about “dangerously” low staffing levels they have refused to provide non-urgent gynaecological treatments. The nine doctors work at Gosford…
“While we continue to have locums paid as handsomely as they are, we will continue to have excruciating workforce shortages.” Dr Rod Martin, ACRRM’s president-elect,…
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…
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…
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…
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