Workplace Conditions
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Hospital sex-abuse report rebukes leaders AAP - 15-12-2022
Senior management at a Tasmanian hospital where a male pedophile nurse worked for almost two decades showed "inertia" to implementing child safety reforms after
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Hotel nurses concerned for patient safety AAP - 14-12-2022
A Melbourne nurse who signed up to support hotel quarantine nearly walked out on day one because of a lack of consistent procedures. Despite concerns he couldn't
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Parents warned to steer clear of hospital AAP - 06-12-2022
Melbourne parents with sick children may face waits of more than 12 hours at the Royal Children's Hospital's emergency department as it buckles under demand.
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Report urges revamp of 'failing' Medicare AAP - 05-12-2022
Medicare isn't working for patients or doctors and the way GPs work and get paid needs an overhaul so more people are kept out of hospital and poorer Australians get the
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Offer to film in Sydney hospital 'wrong' AAP - 03-12-2022
A western Sydney hospital's ad offering filming space in empty hospital wards was a "mistake", the NSW premier says despite support for the initiative from his
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Vic health dept in court over quarantine AAP - 28-11-2022
A hearing to determine if Victoria's health department will face trial over alleged hotel quarantine failures is set to begin. Worksafe charged the Department
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NSW hires student doctors to ease pressure AAP - 28-11-2022
More than 1000 NSW final-year medical students will be working in hospitals in paid positions to reduce pressure on hospitals in the state's latest bid to aid the system
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'Exhausted' WA nurses walk off the job AAP - 27-11-2022
Angry nurses and midwives have defied the West Australian government and gathered in their thousands as part of a statewide strike. Staff walked off the job
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Health system 'racist to Indigenous Aust' AAP - 26-11-2022
Going to an emergency department as an Aboriginal person is a profoundly more racist experience than for non-Indigenous Australians - and it could even prove fatal.
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'Burnt out' nurses call for patient ratios AAP - 24-11-2022
Newly-trained nurse Vanessa is fed up after less than a year in NSW's health system. She regularly cares for six patients during a shift and sometimes as
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NSW Nurses strike for 24 hours AAP - 23-11-2022
Nurses and midwives will walk off the job for 24-hours on Wednesday in the fourth such action this year over staffing and pay issues Rallies will be held across
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NSW nurses to walk off job again AAP - 16-11-2022
Nurses across NSW will stop work again next week amid concerns about 'dangerous' staffing levels. Thousands of nurses will strike for 24 hours from
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Qld public health workers seek wage talks AAP - 09-11-2022
Frontline Queensland health staff, including doctors, health practitioners and administrative staff, have accused the state government of stalling wage talks.
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Vic doctor who scammed patients jailed AAP - 08-11-2022
A gambling addict doctor who swindled 19 people, including patients, out of almost $800,000 has been sentenced to three years in jail. Abraham Stephanson, 50,
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Facebook photo sparks ambo diversity probe AAP - 28-10-2022
A Facebook post showing an all-male group of NSW elite paramedic recruits has sparked an internal investigation over whether the team has a gender diversity problem.
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Call for support for doctors being probed AAP - 24-10-2022
Health professionals being investigated should have mental health support and the right to legal representation, a new advocate says. Queensland became the
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Medicare rorting taken seriously AAP - 18-10-2022
Health Minister Mark Butler vows claims of billions of dollars being rorted each year from the Medicare system are being taken seriously. Mr Butler said an
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NT nurses felt targeted before teen shot AAP - 11-10-2022
Health workers who fled a remote Northern Territory community over safety fears hours before police shot and killed an Indigenous teenager believed they were being targeted
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NSW hospitals 'basically Third World' AAP - 06-10-2022
Western Sydney doctors have labelled NSW public hospitals "basically Third World" at a parliamentary inquiry into bottlenecks at emergency departments.
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Monash hospital to undergo $560m expansion AAP - 02-10-2022
Nearly 6000 more Victorians will be admitted to Monash Medical Centre in Clayton every year under a proposed multimillion-dollar government hospital expansion.
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