Posted
Thousands of counterfeit prescription pills made their way into Australia's official supply chain in 2010, ending up at a children's hospital in Sydney. Now the pharmacist who supplied the fakes is fighting the cancellation of his licence.
Topics: chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, health, pharmaceuticals, healthcare-facilities, sydney-2000
Posted
Planned changes to the South Australian Ambulance Service will not cost jobs, chief executive Jason Killens promises.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, health-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, regional, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, renmark-5341
Posted
South Australian cancer patients who were given incorrect frequencies in doses of a chemotherapy drug may have had their treatment outcomes compromised, a haematology expert tells a coronial inquest.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, healthcare-facilities, health, cancer, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedHumans in developed nations are living longer than ever before, with life expectancy in some countries soon expected to surpass 90 years, researchers say.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, mens-health, womens-health, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe welfare of doctors at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital is being ignored with some unable to take leave for three years, the Australian Medical Association says, but health officials reject the claims.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, doctors-and-medical-professionals, states-and-territories, perth-6000, wa
Posted
| UpdatedPossible disciplinary action against a senior doctor at Port Moresby General Hospital for making a public appeal for basic medical supplies has angered the head of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia is well on its way to eradicating the potentially deadly virus Hepatitis C by 2026 thanks to aggressive funding of treatments and cures, researchers say.
Topics: hepatitis, healthcare-facilities, australia
Posted
Some abortion services currently available at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital could be moved to a different location as the hospital confirms a review.
Topics: health, womens-health, healthcare-facilities, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, north-adelaide-5006, adelaide-5000, woodville-5011, sa
Posted
A public hospital in country South Australia is forced to rely upon a private donor to fix a badly leaking roof after the State Government ignored repeated requests to replace it.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, community-and-society, government-and-politics, kingston-se-5275, sa, adelaide-5000
Posted
The new roof at Kingston Soldiers' Memorial Hospital cost a private donor $900,000.
Topics: community-and-society, health, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, kingston-se-5275
Posted
Some public sector radiologists are threatening to cut back their services, saying their skills are not being recognised by SA health authorities.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
Regional hospitals across South Australia are at risk of losing their mains power during future load shedding blackouts.
Topics: health, health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, mount-gambier-5290, sa, penola-5277, millicent-5280, murray-bridge-5253
Posted
| UpdatedPatients are getting stuck in emergency rooms and elective surgery wait times are the longest they have been in 15 years, an Australian Medical Association report shows, labelling the system virtually stagnant and "woeful".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-policy, health-administration, australia
Posted
Emergency defibrillators that come with recorded verbal instructions are installed in the CBD as part of a $25,000 trial hoped to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims, with people urged to use them even if they are untrained.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, heart-disease, health, adelaide-5000
Posted
| UpdatedThere are fears the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will struggle to cope with its first winter flu season after the current hospital hits capacity during summer.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedThe opening of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital might come before this year's flu season but talks will continue about the hospital's eventual cost, Health Minister Jack Snelling says.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, health, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedLegal action has ended over the delayed Royal Adelaide Hospital build, the South Australian Government says, and construction should finish in March.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, health-policy, states-and-territories, programs-and-initiatives, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
The potential exposure of 25 workers to asbestos prompts calls from Labor and the construction union for a fresh audit of the $680 million Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, hobart-7000
Posted
| UpdatedUp to 25 contractors working on the Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment in the CBD have potentially been exposed to asbestos due to an administrative error.
Topics: asbestos, healthcare-facilities, hobart-7000
Posted
Queensland's public hospitals are wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money by not being cost efficient when it comes to buying high-end medical equipment, an auditor-general's report finds.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, parliament, state-parliament, government-and-politics, health, qld
Posted
As the SA Government unveils a new campaign aimed at reducing violence in hospitals, nurses call for the right to refuse treatment to aggressive patients.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, occupational-health-and-safety, health, social-media, sa, adelaide-5000
Posted
| UpdatedIt is simply unacceptable that people with intellectual disability in our community are dying from preventable causes at over twice the rate as other Australians, write acting NSW Ombudsman Professor John McMillan and Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond.
Topics: health, mental-health, disabilities, human, human-interest, healthcare-facilities, nsw
Posted
| UpdatedWhen Maureen McIlquham's daughter Michelle was discharged from hospital on a cool autumn night in 2009, she never imagined the 28-year-old would be dead in the family home just hours later.
Topics: states-and-territories, disabilities, healthcare-facilities, medical-procedures, death, sydney-2000, australia
Posted
With recent data on smoking rates confirming its prevalence and power in Australia's regions, one country town is using friendship and fundraising to help its residents kick the habit.
Topics: smoking, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, regional, trangie-2823, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
Posted
| UpdatedDi Wilschefski was talking about guardian angels when she was struck down by cardiac arrest on Serendipity Drive, where her life was saved by a cardiac nurse and a portable defibrillator.
Topics: emergency-incidents, medical-procedures, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, people, samford-4520, melbourne-3000