At the end of a 100-hour week,Dr Amireh Fakhouri was too exhausted to drive home. Now she has helped win record backpay for 20,000 colleagues.
NSW Ambulance has launched investigation into the death of 80-year-old woman from cardiac arrest.
Australian researchers are responsible for a series of globally significant medical inventions and innovations.
The future of a government funding program which has assisted teams developing artificial hearts and turning spider venom into drug therapies is in doubt.
Critics had warned the proposal to replace highly trained registered nurses with enrolled nurses in critical care units risked patient safety.
Most of the 64 deaths that occurred at Australian music festivals between 2000 and 2019 involved very high levels of MDMA,in a finding researchers say bolsters the case for pill testing.
Almost 2000 of the state’s 5000 paramedics are withholding their registrations amid failed pay negotiations between the government and the Health Services Union.
Eight nurses and midwives have taken their lives in the last three years,the union says,while nearly 2000 NSW Health workers lodged compensation claims for psychological injuries over the past two years,new data reveals.
A shortage of aged care staff is putting pressure on hospitals,which are unable to discharge patients due to a lack of beds.
More than 1500 of the state’s paramedics plan to boycott renewing their national registration,leaving them unable to work from December 1.
The state’s local health districts have been told they have less to spend on palliative care than promised under Dominic Perrottet.