Health department tells doctors it could report them to AHPRA if three-day strike goes ahead
Health officials have told doctors they could be reported to AHPRA for striking next week and defying a legal ban on taking industrial action. The…
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Thousands of doctors to strike for three days over salaries and unsafe working conditions
Thousands of doctors will stop working for three days next week, leaving public hospitals with a skeleton staff and defying legal orders banning their industrial…
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…
‘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…
