The continued strain on frontline workers has prompted the state government to set up a taskforce charged with slashing emergency department wait times.
A potential funding fix on health at national cabinet on Wednesday comes amid open disputes on GST and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The health minister warns NSW’s triple zero system will “collapse” on New Year’s Eve,with 2000 paramedics refusing to renew their licences over deadlocked pay negotiations.
In the past two years,the job has made 351 paramedics sick. Here,one recalls the trauma of not being able to reach patients in time to save their lives.
There are nearly twice as many public hospitals east of Parramatta than there are to its west,yet Parramatta is the geographical heart of Sydney.
Wednesday’s nine-hour digital outage at public hospitals came hot on the heels of two deaths attributed to medical delays.
An 11-year fight has been portrayed as a turf war between doctors. And yet,the decision-making rests with others.
The family of a 20-year-old man who died as a result of catastrophic errors at a Sydney hospital say they were lied to about crucial medical notes being destroyed.
The state’s local health districts have been told they have less to spend on palliative care than promised under Dominic Perrottet.
A probe into the death of a woman who died just hours after being discharged from Fiona Stanley Hospital after giving birth to twins has found the hospital failed to follow protocol.
A small number of NSW hospitals currently offer same-day discharge. The NSW government’s surgical taskforce wants to expand the option to the rest of the state.