NSW paramedics will not take patients' billing details for the next five days in an escalation in their dispute with the government over pay and conditions.
Phoebe Loomes
One in two Australian parents and carers feel the COVID-19 pandemic is still making learning difficult for their children, research shows.
Staff Writers
WA Deputy Premier Roger Cook has accused pharmaceutical companies of price gouging, saying there had been a ‘substantial spike’ in the cost of flu shots in the wake of Queensland making the jab free.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The Australian Medical Association Queensland has called for increased Medicare rebates and a national summit to restructure the nation's health care systems.
Marty Silk
Thousands of frustrated aged-care workers are going out on one-hour strikes across WA, South Australia and Queensland today in ongoing protests over poor work conditions.
Troy de Ruyter
Dozens of Victorian patients were left waiting for an ambulance overnight after the state's triple-zero dispatch system crashed.
Mibenge Nsenduluka and Callum Godde
West Australians are likely to soon be offered free access to influenza vaccinations with the McGowan Government currently scrambling to shore up supplies of the seasonal jab.
Josh Zimmerman
Almost half of all Queensland patients were ramped in ambulances for more than 30 minutes in the March quarter.
Robyn Wuth
Two more West Australians have died from COVID and another 11 were admitted to hospital with the virus in the latest figures released by WA Health.
Michael Traill
St John WA is planning to ask distressed triple-0 callers if family members or friends can act in lieu of an ambulance, if paramedics are not immediately available. Here’s how the plan could work.
Michael Traill & Kellie Balaam
NSW paramedics will refuse to take patients' billing details from next week amid unprecedented demand for ambulances and a workforce nearing burnout.
Jack Gramenz
An Australian study found linking rural hospitals to specialist coronary nurses reduced cases of a serious type of heart attack being missed.
Stephanie Gardiner
The State Government’s likely move to scrap a family birthing centre at WA’s new maternity hospital has been met with heavy resistance.
A trial is set to start using a cancer drug that may offer some hope for sufferers of motor neurone disease.
Tim Dornin
An extra 1.5 million people are now eligible to receive a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, or second booster.
Andrew Brown
Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has reassured West Australians there will be no reduction in family birthing centres as part of the construction of a new women and babies hospital.
WA has recorded a slight increase in COVID cases, but the update comes amid marked drops in other significant data, with hopes the downward trend will continue.
Miriam Fisher
A broken lift at a Melbourne hospital that forced women in need of emergency caesareans to slide down a stairwell on a stretcher is still not fixed.
Melissa Meehan
The outbreak of monkeypox cases outside of Africa can be contained, the World Health Organisation says, as more governments announce plans to launch limited vaccinations to combat rising infections.
Jennifer Rigby and Mrinalika Roy
The general director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has been re-elected for a second five-year term of office.
Jennifer Rigby, Emma Farge and Mrinalika Roy
Perth’s new women and babies hospital appears unlikely to include an on-site family birthing centre, with WA’s Health Minister not in support of co-locating the popular service with a tertiary health campus.
A Commonwealth-funded $200 million quarantine facility in Perth’s north looms as an expensive white elephant with Mark McGowan admitting he is unsure what to do with it once construction is complete this year.
Expectant Carnarvon women are being forced to travel hundreds of kilometres in the late stages of their pregnancies to give birth in Geraldton because of a severe shortage of midwives in regional WA.
St John has ‘no ability’ to refuse to ramp its ambulances outside hospitals, as was incorrectly announced by the not-for-profit, sparking chaos and a quick retraction from its chief executive.
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