Doctors have warned a stream of preventable deaths will continue unless the government addresses a culture of bullying in the state’s hospitals.
NSW will start reporting its coronavirus cases,hospitalisations and deaths on a weekly basis from this Friday,as part of a national move away from releasing daily infection numbers.
The redevelopment,which includes an extra building and an expanded emergency department,has been touted as the biggest upgrade to the hospital in its 140-year history.
A scandal over unchecked test results at a NSW hospital has deepened amid revelations three cancer diagnoses were missed.
Speaking up about preventable patient deaths can be a career-ending move,senior doctors tell the Herald.
NSW is paying for people ages five to 64 to be vaccinated but only 29 per cent of those have taken up the offer,and even less in Sydney’s west and south-west.
State health ministers will push the federal government to crack down on illicit vaping imports after research found they are serving as a “gateway” to cigarettes.
Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid says patient testimonials are impossible to verify and can be “completely misleading”.
Ongoing COVID-19 and other winter virus cases,as well as the state’s looming elective surgery backlog,are continuing to place pressure on hospitals.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will soon convene the first meeting of national cabinet under a Labor government,as state and territory leaders prepare to demand action to fix their health systems.
The regional hospitals inquiry,sparked by a Herald investigation,raised disturbing allegations of treatment of whistleblowers and cover-ups of patient deaths.