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    Tag: Hospitals

    Underground trains rendering hospital MRI scans unreliable: Melbourne’s $180 million headache

    August 22, 2024

    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?…

    Dr Andrew Miller

    Doctor says govt telling ‘porky pies’ over IV fluid shortage despite improving supply

    August 19, 2024

    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?

    August 14, 2024

    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

    August 12, 2024

    “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 

    August 10, 2024

    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

    August 8, 2024

    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

    July 31, 2024

    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…

    Australia faces shortage of ‘crucial’ IV fluids

    July 29, 2024

    A critical shortage of IV fluids has hit the Australian health system with “very little warning” and could eventually impact non-cancer elective surgery. The current…

    Meet RUPERT — the new decision support tool for treating kids with UTIs

    July 19, 2024

    Deciding when to prescribe IV antibiotics for UTIs in kids could soon be made easier thanks to Australian doctors who have developed a world-first individualised…

    Private healthcare crisis: NIB refusing to pay its ‘fair share’ warns hospital boss

    July 8, 2024

    When private negotiations go sour and spill into the public domain, you know something is going badly wrong. Last week, the country’s largest not-for-profit private…

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    Private healthcare crisis: NIB refusing to pay its 'fair share' warns hospital boss

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