A young doctor who switched her seaside upbringing to living and working in her dream job in northwest Queensland is urging other medical graduates to reconsider their career options and head into rural medicine. Gabrielle Keating never thought her six-week placement in Mt Isa would lead her to finding herContinue Reading
Australian babies are falling sick more than ever before after being given a colic treatment that could be potentially toxic, health experts have warned. NSW Health have revealed an increasing amount of neonatal children and infants are presenting to doctors and emergency departments with suspected anticholinergic syndrome. The syndrome couldContinue Reading
Packed-out and understaff emergency departments are the latest part of the nation’s healthcare system to be ringing alarm bells, according to a major new report. Performances have deteriorated in the overwhelming majority of categories over the last 12 years, such as wait times, and this trend can vary enormously dependingContinue Reading
Labor will funnel $227m into opening 29 more urgent care clinics across the country, as part of a broader multi-billion dollar health package in Tuesday’s budget. Despite a slow start to the rollout and ongoing concerns about opening hours, there have been almost 400,000 visits to the 58 bulk-billed clinicsContinue Reading
NSW semi-urgent and non-urgent hospital patients spent just under five million hours in emergency departments statewide last year, research from NCA NewsWire shows. The 4.96 million-hour health burden, sourced through Bureau of Health Information data, comes as NSW hospitals face an unprecedented statewide strain. Record-high staff burnout and the nationalContinue Reading
Junior doctors who worked in NSW will collectively receive almost $230m from the state’s public health system after an agreement was reached to end a four-year legal battle. On Wednesday, it was revealed NSW Health had agreed to pay $229.8 million to resolve a class action brought by junior doctorsContinue Reading
Tens of thousands of patients have avoided the need to go to the emergency department as the NSW government expands access to urgent care services across the state. Health Minister Ryan Park released the data as he celebrated ahead of the official opening of the South Western Sydney Local HeathContinue Reading
Australia’s state health ministers have united to call on the federal government for urgent changes to Medicare for women suffering from endometriosis. Off the back of news.com.au’s ‘About Bloody Time’ campaign launch on Friday, every state and territory in the country has supported calls for longer, Medicare-funded consultations for theContinue Reading
A life-threatening opioid is falsely being sold as MDMA in Sydney – but those who want to test for the deadly drug have no way to safely do so. Three people were sent to Sydney hospital over the last weekend of January after taking what they thought was as littleContinue Reading
One man is fighting for life and more than a dozen people were treated for injuries following a possible explosion at a residential address in Melbourne. Emergency services converged on a residence along Development Boulevard in Mill Park late on Sunday night following reports of a fire. A man sustainedContinue Reading