Healthcare
Patients slugged by 'questionable' Ambulance Victoria bills, Ombudsman finds
Ambulance Victoria engaged in "multiple cases of questionable practices" in billing patients over $500 for minimal treatment.
- by Yan Zhuang
Latest
Healthcare
Flu vaccine shortage amid run on private market pharmacy supplies
Australian pharmacies are running out of the flu vaccine amid unprecedented numbers of people getting immunised against the infection.
- by Kate Aubusson and Liam Mannix
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Healthcare
Overburdened psychiatrists abandon 'broken' public system
Australia’s public psychiatric services are in slow and painful decline, with “profoundly disillusioned” psychiatrists leaving for private practice, senior specialists warn.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Healthcare
‘Every time I told you I loved you, I was lying’: Backlash over Heart Foundation campaign
The Heart Foundation has evoked anger with a hard-hitting television advertisement which suggests that if you don’t look after your health then you don’t love your family enough.
- by Melissa Cunningham
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Healthcare
'Best outcomes in the world': NSW takes big steps to cut cancer deaths
Growing numbers of people are being diagnosed with cancer, but the chances of survival are getting better, the latest Cancer Institute NSW report shows.
- by Kate Aubusson
Mental health
'Enough is enough': The push to protect doctors from mental illness
Evidence suggests doctors and other medical professionals suffer mental health issues at a higher rate than the general population. The AMA wants to change that.
- by Stuart Layt
Healthcare
Flu claims 37 lives in NSW as parents urged to get children vaccinated
The high rates of flu during the warmer months and the early start to the flu season has triggered the highest number of flu cases in Australia ahead of winter in two decades.
- by Kate Aubusson
Hospitals
AMA president calls for more funding for 'unacceptable' public hospitals
Dr Tony Bartone has called on the newly re-elected Morrison government to direct urgent funding to the public hospital system.
- by Stuart Layt
Healthcare
US Defence Department funds Queensland concussion research study
The US Department of Defence has put $250,000 towards Queensland concussion research looking at genetic links to debilitating side-effects such as headaches.
- by Stuart Layt
Healthcare
Never return home: rise in palliative care patients dying in hospital
Palliative care-related hospitalisations rose by over 25.6 per cent, between 2012-2013 and 2016-2017, the 'Palliative Care Services in Australia' report found.
- by Kate Aubusson
Opinion
Healthcare
Nurses: the hidden healthcare professionals
Twenty years after a study found nurses quoted in just 5 per cent of stories about healthcare, a new study found the figure had gone down.
- by Kylie Ward