Healthcare
What are NSW’s new COVID-19 restrictions?
The new restrictions will affect Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour, effective from 4pm Wednesday for one week.
- by Sophia Phan
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Opinion
Vaccination
Vaccine hesitancy horse has bolted. We need a powerful campaign.
When it comes to government ads to promote vaccination, informing is not enough. We need high emotion, designed to trigger action.
- by Russel Howcroft
Opinion
Vaccination
Australia set to join the mRNA vaccine revolution
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of vaccine development forever.
- by Colin Pouton
What are the new COVID-19 restrictions for Sydney and NSW?
NSW has introduced a number of new COVID-19 restrictions in response to the latest eastern suburbs outbreak and other states have introduced restrictions for travel to and from NSW.
- by Pallavi Singhal
‘Difference between whether you’re breathing or not’: East-west divide in ambulance times
An east-west divide exists in ambulance response times across Sydney, as paramedics warn delayed response times are putting patients at risk.
- by Mary Ward
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
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