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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Government will spend half a billion dollars upgrading Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west, one of the city's busiest, in a long-awaited redevelopment.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, federal---state-issues, kingswood-2747, penrith-2750, sydney-2000
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There are claims administrative problems within northern Tasmania's largest in-home care provider are causing sick, disabled and elderly Tasmanians to miss out on vital care.
Topics: disabilities, welfare, community-and-society, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedMore than 4,000 Tasmanians walked away from emergency departments without being treated by a doctor in the past year, but the Commonwealth was still slugged about $70 per patient, documents reveal.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, states-and-territories, tas
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A hospital in north Queensland is the first in the state to trial the use of 3D cameras to treat patients with diabetes living in rural and remote areas.
Topics: health-administration, regional, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, health, diseases-and-disorders, diabetes, townsville-4810, qld, charters-towers-4820, torrens-creek-4816
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North-west Tasmanian mayors are pushing for a 10-year a federal funding plan for the Mersey Hospital at Latrobe.
Topics: health, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, latrobe-7307
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| UpdatedVictoria's growing transgender community demands greater action to tackle long public waiting lists to access hormone therapy.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, sexual-health, health, sexuality, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, government-and-politics, state-parliament, vic, melbourne-3000
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A senior clinician warns the Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department was "choked" and resuscitation capacities were compromised due to patient numbers.
Topics: health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, state-parliament, unions, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedA decision to shut operating theatres at Busselton's hospital during the peak tourist season could put lives at risk, the Australian Medical Association warns.
Topics: health-administration, state-parliament, busselton-6280
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| UpdatedIndigenous Australians continue to be disproportionately represented in HIV and sexually transmitted infection rates compared to the wider population, new research finds.
Topics: aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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E-health files in the United States are being used for identity fraud and by paedophiles, according to a new report that highlights the vulnerabilities of online health systems.
Topics: health-administration, healthcare-facilities, internet-technology, information-and-communication, hacking, computers-and-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedAs many as 4,000 hospital nurses have walked off the job in Papua New Guinea in protest at the government's failure to deliver on a promised pay rise.
Topics: health, health-administration, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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The shift begins into the Royal Hobart Hospital's temporary unit but unions remain concerned 15 fewer beds in the ward will exacerbate shortage issues.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, states-and-territories, hobart-7000, tas
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SA's Enterprise Patient Administration System is part of the State Government's ambitious plan to develop an electronic medical record that can be used in hospitals and other health services, but it has been fraught with operational issues and has been subject to extensive criticism by health professionals.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health, health-administration, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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A former coal miner who has unwillingly become a symbol of black lung disease details his plight, telling a state parliamentary committee there are moments he no longer wants to live.
Topics: community-and-society, health, environmental-health, health-policy, health-administration, occupational-health-and-safety, diseases-and-disorders, rural, mining-rural, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, qld
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Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800
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| UpdatedA parliamentary inquiry hears that health chiefs are uncertain whether the total number of patients affected by low dosing of chemotherapy in western New South Wales will ever be known.
Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800, bathurst-2795, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA former Socceroo who died in an Adelaide Hospital after an oxygen tube was connected to his catheter was left in the care of an unsupervised student nurse, an inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, health, adelaide-5000, woodville-5011, sa
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| UpdatedThe United Nations abandons plans to evacuate patients from rebel-held Aleppo, which it had hoped to accomplish during a three-day lull in fighting last week.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe RSL pulls out of being a partner in the redevelopment of the Daw Park Repatriation General Hospital citing "internal issues within the consortium".
Topics: health, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, daw-park-5041, sa
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| UpdatedChildren could be put at risk if reviews of foster carers in South Australia are not done in a timely way, the state's auditor-general warns.
Topics: health-policy, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, health-administration, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedRadius Disability Services cuts up to 40 jobs and goes into voluntary administration.
Topics: health-administration, disabilities, bendigo-3550
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The NSW Health Minister says incoming board members at the Far West Local Health District will be handed findings of a probe into its governance.
Topics: health, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, health-administration, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedBallarat's base hospital says its first ever recorded deficit is a direct result of the economic costs associated with efforts to address workplace bullying.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health-administration, business-economics-and-finance, bullying, health, ballarat-3350
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Four directors of the Far West Local Health District who were suddenly removed last week write to the NSW Health Minister, asking her to release the outcome of a review of board governance.
Topics: health, health-administration, government-and-politics, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedIn a significant win for the West Australian Government, agreements for new pay deals are reached with the state's doctors and nurses as they agree to accept a rise of 1.5 per cent per annum.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, states-and-territories, perth-6000, wa