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Triple-zero call system failures investigated after patient’s death
Call centre operators are being forced to log critical incidents by pen and paper due to tech issues plaguing the state’s 000 service.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Alarm over NSW hospital where newborns ‘are seen by tea ladies’ instead of nurses
Doctors are threatening to quit en masse from a hospital with understaffing leaving them in “crisis” conditions.
- by Carrie Fellner
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‘Negligently treated’: Brother of 32-year-old woman who died during six-hour wait for ambulance demands answers
Christina Lackmann, an aspiring cancer researcher, died in her Caulfield North home last week after feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Her brother wants to know why it took hours for her to receive care.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Coronavirus pandemic
Australia has golden opportunity to join the mRNA revolution
The next revolution in medicine will be mRNA-based: Australia must not miss out.
- by Nadia Levin
WA to close ‘high-risk’ hotels as state records fourth day of no new community COVID-19 cases
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison the state will stop using three ‘high-risk’ hotels to quarantine returned overseas travellers.
- by Peter de Kruijff
‘Slipping in the wrong direction’: Early C-sections causing unnecessary risk
High numbers of caesarean births are being scheduled for a week or two before a baby’s due date, worrying gynaecologists and obstetricians.
- by Mary Ward
Great-grandmother becomes oldest Australian to have robotic surgery
Heather Voevodin has set the milestone and been given more years with her family after risky bowel cancer surgery was performed using a robotic assistant.
- by Stuart Layt
WA Health told in March to move quarantine guests away from COVID-19 cases
WA’s Department of Health was warned in March, in a report it had commissioned, that hotel quarantine guests 19 should be moved away from neighbouring rooms where returned travellers had tested positive.
- by Peter de Kruijff
A vaxxing problem: Why aren’t more Australian companies producing vaccines?
As global demand for vaccines remains massive, Australia’s currently idle manufacturing facilities could be repurposed in the fight against COVID-19.
- by Anne Hyland
Backdated stay at home order issued for Perth and Peel travellers in regional WA
The WA government issued an official direction at 8.58pm on Saturday night backdating stay at home orders to April 17 for people who had left the Perth or Peel regions to other parts of the state.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Anyone who left Perth and Peel to other parts of WA from April 17 to act like they’re under city restrictions
People who left the Perth and Peel regions to any part of WA since April 17 should be isolating as if they are in Perth and wearing a mask when they go out.
- by Peter de Kruijff