Healthcare
Burnout warning in WA’s under-pressure hospitals as staff leave blows out
The number of staff owed more than eight weeks of annual leave at the five largest agencies under the Department of Health umbrella went up by more than 1800 people to 10,874 last year.
- by Peter de Kruijff
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Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Greater risks than airborne transmission when it comes to quarantine
The strong advocacy for replacing hotel quarantine with standalone facilities to mitigate airborne transmission misses a very important point.
- by Dr Leena Gupta and Dr Teresa Anderson
Opinion
Vaccination
Vaccine rollout looks discriminatory against young people
Why are we allowing vaccination centres to sit empty when so many young people are keen to get the jab but are being turned away?
- by Luke Beck
Sydney-developed incubator gives ‘significant’ boost to IVF births
A peer-reviewed study on the incubator, published in Fertility and Sterility, found the Geri incubator increased the chance of live birth by 12.2 per cent.
- by Mary Ward
Sydney nurses walk off job in escalating pay dispute with state government
Nurses and midwives at Liverpool and Campbelltown hospitals have walked off the job this afternoon after having a “gutful of being ignored”, the union says.
- by Daniella White, Sarah McPhee and Mary Ward
Perth hospital staff turn down shifts as morale continues to fall
As Western Australia’s hospital crisis enters another week of grim milestones a new challenge has emerged for hospital administration as staff morale plummets.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
WA arrivals who visited COVID-19 hotspots linked to new Queensland case told to get tested
WA Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson said recent arrivals from New South Wales and Queensland should check if they had been to any of the newly listed exposure sites.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Opinion
Vaccination
To defeat COVID we need to think outside the bureaucracy box
Our bureaucratic systems are built for the predictable needs of a population, but this won’t help us with volatile situations such as the pandemic.
- by Anna Peeters
Opinion
Medicine
Going to my patient’s funeral honoured our bond
I had thought that I had known David but what I knew was really only a part of who he was.
- by Ian Kerridge
WA to consider extra COVID-19 test after returned travellers leave quarantine
An analysis is under way to determine if the measure is necessary after a man who had the virus but tested negative before leaving quarantine later returned strong PCR results.
- by Peter de Kruijff
‘The people retiring were older men, and they were replaced by women’
Once male-dominated, obstetrics is increasingly a specialisation practiced by women.
- by Mary Ward