Casual nurses at Busselton Hospital have had their employment canned at the last minute in what the union claims are an effort to claw back budget blowouts.
Now,I’m no Michael Jackson,but I do enjoy a light anaesthetic.
For most,the quality – or otherwise – of their life can come down to one word – access. So how does Brisbane fare?
Plans to build a specialist unit on Sydney’s northern beaches have been abandoned despite the state government committing $7.5 million to the project.
The couple is accused of targeting patients,staff and visitors across a number of Perth hospitals,including an elderly woman who was being treated on a ward.
Greenlife Resource Recovery Facility says its mulch is free of contaminants despite multiple finds.
The number of children who presented to emergency departments respiratory illness climbed steeply in the holiday period – and is unlikely to slow down soon.
The Australian Nursing Federation WA hopes support from its more than 40,000 members will transfer to the new party,called Nurses and Midwives WA.
It is important to find joy in the care of others – and levity amid the hardship.
WA is the worst in the nation when it comes to seeing urgent patients on time,well below the national average of 58 per cent.
The gap fees for hip and knee replacements have risen 35 per cent in the past five years,while the out-of pocket cost of other procedures has surged 300 per cent.