The story of the PHN which set up a $2 million charity that delivered no services
A Primary Health Network has shut down a charity it established to support GP practices at risk of collapse, having spent $2.2 million on the…
Tag: NSW
‘Our practice is slowly dying of old age’: GP confronts Mark Butler live on TV
When GP Dr Paul Duff rose nervously to his feet to query federal Health Minister Mark Butler about the continued abuse of general practice, he…
Hearing in NSW psychiatrist dispute delayed over economic impact evidence
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.…
GP-turned-MP brands privately run public hospital a ‘failed experiment’ following two deaths
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?
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…
Patient death at hospital that had no doctors for four days ‘wholly preventable’: coroner
A patient has died at a hospital with no doctors after a telehealth GP prescribed aspirin without knowing of his NSAID hypersensitivity, a coroner has…
Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight
Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…
Tactical blunder? Professor Ian Hickie on the mass psychiatrist resignations
“If surgeons walked out tomorrow and there was no surgery, it takes 24 hours for politicians to fix it. “If the emergency room physicians walked…
‘The NSW Government needs to realise people will die’: Psychiatry registrar quits for Victoria
NSW is home for psychiatry registrar Dr Nithya Reddy. It is where she grew up, undertook all of her medical training so far and became…
Are the ‘clinical marshmallows’ about to strike back?
The medical administrator who accused junior doctors of being “clinical marshmallows” had been asking doctors to work 10 consecutive night shifts, a doctors’ union has…
