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Nurses seek donations for rare diseases program amid funding confusion
The telehealth service understood the federal health minister to have promised funding would be renewed from July but has learnt the money will only arrive in January.
- by Mary Ward
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Antibiotics left in hospital room as woman miscarried then died
Prescribed antibiotics that might have saved Annie Moylan’s life were forgotten and left by her hospital bed as she miscarried her unborn baby and later died.
- by Erin Pearson
Victoria, the birthing robot, endures the stuff of nightmares
To some people, Victoria’s existence is the stuff of nightmares – purpose-built to give birth over and over again. But the birthing robot means junior doctors, nurses and midwives can practice responding to rare obstetric emergencies.
- by Kate Aubusson
‘Our world has changed to make it easy to put on excess weight’
Fresh interest in the decades-old issue of rising obesity rates could be a silver lining of the pandemic, says the new Australian head of the World Obesity Federation.
- by Mary Ward
Restricted Australian neurosurgeon Charlie Teo performing surgery in Spain
Teo is being paid handsomely to perform surgeries in Spain despite his peers raising serious concerns about his behaviour in 2019 and the Medical Council of NSW placing strict conditions on him operating.
- by Jackson Graham and Marta Pascual Juanola
Hospital processes come to aged care after trial cuts deterioration in half
Aged care homes may conjure up images of bingo and tea but this is a distant reality for a sector housing older and frailer residents, facility manager Gaynor Squillacioti says.
- by Mary Ward
WA children’s health boss resigns more than a year on from Aishwarya Aswath’s death
Child and Adolescent Health Service chief executive Dr Aresh Anwar tried to quit 16 months ago after a report found multiple staffing, equipment and policy failures could have contributed to the death of the 7-year-old girl.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Abortion reform on McGowan’s agenda as student demands to know why they aren’t free
A university student crashed Premier Mark McGowan’s electric vehicles press conference on Wednesday to demand to know why abortions were not free for women in Western Australia.
- by Daile Cross
Big contracts, little staff amid ‘Uberisation’ of in-home aged care
Private providers are taking over from some Victorian councils to provide in-home aged care despite lacking the staff to service all the additional clients.
- by Cara Waters
Shorter hospital stays solution to elective surgery backlog, new analysis finds
For his hip replacement operation, Paul Murgatroyd was hospitalised for only one night and a nurse and physiotherapist visited him at home afterwards.
- by Kate Aubusson
‘Ahead of her time’: How Olivia Newton-John used star power to help others
By being open about her metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, she helped break down misconceptions about the disease.
- by Aisha Dow, Clay Lucas and Carolyn Webb