Healthcare
Border Force on alert for fake vaccines as ACCC warns of scams
“You can’t pay for early access to the vaccine or to skip the queue, that’s just not how it works here.”
- by Michael Koziol
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Coronavirus pandemic
Top epidemiologist says virus outbreak is ‘absolutely inevitable’
The risk of a disastrous coronavirus outbreak in Australia is now at its highest level since the pandemic began, says epidemiologist and mathematical biologist James McCaw.
- by Aisha Dow
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Healthcare
Paramedics, health minister plead: Stop calling 000 unless you really need to
More than 10 per cent of people who called an ambulance did not need to go to hospital, contributing unnecessary demand to the already-stretched ambulance service.
- by Paul Sakkal and Michael Fowler
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Hospitals
The simple measure that could save Qld hospitals $15 million a year
A comprehensive study has found a simple change in how a common piece of medical equipment is used could save millions of dollars and improve outcomes for patients.
- by Stuart Layt
The deadly disease that is the healthcare system’s ‘bogey man coming over the hill’
Advocates are calling for greater public awareness of risk factors for liver cancer, which sees fewer than one in five survive for five years after diagnosis.
- by Mary Ward
‘Third World country’: Liberals attack government on ambulance wait times
The opposition questioned the government about whether better management of the health system could have helped avert the death of a 32-year-old who waited 6.5 hours for an ambulance.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
The joyful jab: my shot at making history
It’s been a long time since I worried about catching coronavirus. I’m just impatient. Every needle in an arm slowly turns the key that will unlock this country.
- by Michelle Griffin
Opinion
Andrew Laming
ADHD no excuse for poor behaviour
It’s great that Andrew Laming has been open about his ADHD diagnosis, but having this condition linked with dubious conduct is less ideal for other Australians dealing with ADHD.
- by Cade Lucas
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Healthcare
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
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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Healthcare
‘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