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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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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
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| 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
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| UpdatedOnce it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, health-insurance, health-policy, australia
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| UpdatedThe redevelopment of the Royal Hobart Hospital is causing bed shortages and having a severe impact on patient care, the nurses' union says.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, hobart-7000, tas
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An inquest clears a WA country doctor over his treatment of a woman who died a day after being discharged from Northam Hospital.
Topics: death, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, courts-and-trials, northam-6401
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Tasmanians are being prescribed morphine-based medications more than any other state and it directly relates to long wait lists for elective surgery, says the peak body representing family doctors.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, health-administration, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, tas
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| UpdatedVeteran New South Wales Health Minister Jillian Skinner announces her retirement from politics amid speculation she was going to be dumped from the Government's frontbench.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, health-administration, health-policy, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedProposed industrial action by nurses at two of Adelaide's major public hospitals is called off after the union and SA Health are able to come to an agreement on the closure of a number of beds.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedProposed industrial action by nurses at two of Adelaide's major public hospitals could lead to patients waiting in ambulances outside emergency departments, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine says.
Topics: health, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, health-administration, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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Nurses will take industrial action at two major Adelaide hospitals this weekend, limiting numbers in emergency departments to try to have targeted bed closures scrapped.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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The New South Wales Opposition is calling for an external investigation into the Ballina Hospital's emergency department.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, community-and-society, ballina-2478, lismore-2480, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Health and Community Services Union blames a lack of hospital beds as a photo emerges of what it says are three ambulances unable to drop off their patients at the emergency department.
Topics: health-administration, healthcare-facilities, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe Republican-led US House of Representatives approves a measure making the first move toward scrapping Obamacare, joining the Senate in instructing key committees to write legislation repealing the health insurance law.
Topics: health-administration, health-insurance, health-policy, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedSouth Australian nurses are considering industrial action over over plans to permanently close 55 beds at two of Adelaide's major public hospitals.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, unions, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000
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There are hopes of a reprieve for residents in north-west Tasmania who have been facing the closure of health services in the Kentish area.
Topics: health-insurance, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, community-and-society, sheffield-7306
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| UpdatedA downgrade of Launceston General Hospital's training accreditation for internal medicine may result in difficulties recruiting enough staff, medics say.
Topics: health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Government's $775,000 advertising campaign aimed at making the public "more enthusiastic" about the new Royal Adelaide Hospital is labelled a waste by the Opposition.
Topics: health-administration, healthcare-facilities, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedRural doctor shortages are exacerbated over the Christmas and New Year period when many regional areas can be left without a doctor, sometimes for weeks on end, the Rural Doctors Association of Australia says.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, rural, community-and-society, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, australia, qld, kingaroy-4610
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After weeks of industrial action Tasmanian nurses and midwives give in-principle support to a pay offer from the the State Government.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, health, tas
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| UpdatedThe NSW coroner orders the death of a disabled Aboriginal woman at the Campbelltown Hospital be further probed over allegations a senior doctor said she would have been treated differently if she was "normal".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, health, health-administration, disabilities, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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The operators of St Vincent's in Launceston says it can't find enough midwives to operate its post-natal maternity unit and it will close this week.
Topics: health-administration, healthcare-facilities, launceston-7250
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One of the Tasmanian communities losing some health services vows to continue to fight the Federal Government's revamp as the new operators are announced.
Topics: states-and-territories, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, rural, community-and-society, activism-and-lobbying, sheffield-7306, alonnah-7150