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Doctors look interstate for work as Victorian budget squeeze hits hard

Doctors look interstate for work as Victorian budget squeeze hits hard

Hiring freezes and job losses at Victorian hospitals are prompting many healthcare workers to look interstate for work.

  • by Henrietta Cook

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Why these parents didn’t sue the hospital that killed their baby
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Why these parents didn’t sue the hospital that killed their baby

What does justice look like when your child dies due to catastrophic medical errors?

  • by Kate Aubusson
Ozempic is much more than a weight-loss drug, studies show

Ozempic is much more than a weight-loss drug, studies show

New diabetes drugs are very likely to improve heart and kidney health for sufferers, research reveals. But Australia’s supply shortage will not be resolved this year.

  • by Mary Ward
A day – and an unexpected night – in the emergency ward
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A day – and an unexpected night – in the emergency ward

After spending a day as an observer in the state’s busiest emergency department, there is an unforeseen personal visit to another emergency ward.

  • by Tony Wright
Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis

Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis

No amount of funding will improve service delivery if we cannot find nurses to fill positions under current conditions and improve healthcare culture.

  • by John Wilson
The longest surgery wait list, budget cuts and a disputed $500m hospital fix

The longest surgery wait list, budget cuts and a disputed $500m hospital fix

Anger is boiling over in Albury-Wodonga, where the waiting list for planned surgery is already the worst in regional Victoria.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
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Doctors fear elective surgery lists will blow out again

Doctors fear elective surgery lists will blow out again

Victoria blitzed elective surgery waiting lists down after the pandemic, but looming health cuts threaten to blow them out again and force more people to take out private health insurance.

  • by Jewel Topsfield
‘Scorched earth’: What the state’s health funding squeeze means for rural health

‘Scorched earth’: What the state’s health funding squeeze means for rural health

Health outcomes for people in regional areas are already poorer than the city. Here’s why they may get much worse.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
The common but little-known virus causing disability in hundreds of babies

The common but little-known virus causing disability in hundreds of babies

Every year, about 400 babies are born with physical and intellectual disabilities caused by a virus many pregnant women don’t know about.

  • by Henrietta Cook
Narelle watched her husband die a painful death, so she chose hers

Narelle watched her husband die a painful death, so she chose hers

Since NSW became the last state in Australia to offer voluntary assisted dying in November, hundreds of people have applied. These are some of their stories.

  • by Angus Thomson
Secret recording reveals sense of budget crisis in Victorian hospitals
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Secret recording reveals sense of budget crisis in Victorian hospitals

Bed and ward closures, reducing elective surgery, cancelling breast screenings and even closing special-care cots were all openly discussed as possibilities to save money.

  • by Chip Le Grand, Jewel Topsfield, Henrietta Cook, Benjamin Preiss and Broede Carmody