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Emergency doctors are ‘begging for beds’ and planning to quit
Patients are not receiving the best care because “we don’t have the space”, the emergency doctors’ college warns.
- Rachel Rasker
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Premier and ministers keep little Joe’s picture on their desks: The tragedy that changed NSW
On Wednesday, the Minns government officially took control of the Northern Beaches Hospital. It brought to a close one of the state’s most significant public policy failures.
- Michael McGowan
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- Hospitals
‘It was Joe’s love’: The campaign to bring Northern Beaches Hospital into public hands
With the hospital officially being taken over on Wednesday, Health Minister Ryan Park is “reasonably confident” private services will continue going forward.
- Michael McGowan
Health cuts in ‘darkened rooms in Canberra’ will impact Sydney hospitals
The premier has warned the Albanese government the state’s hospital system is heaving and cuts to private health rebates will only make it worse.
- Jessica McSweeney, Mary Ward and Michael McGowan
How a deadly fungus cluster exposed NSW’s wicked hospital problem
Many of NSW’s 4400 hospital buildings are ageing and riddled with mould, but a $940 million upgrade of one Sydney hospital may have disturbed spores deadly to some of its sickest patients.
- Angus Thomson and Michael Ruffles
The Sydney hospitals where patients wait nearly two days for a bed
NSW public hospitals are failing to meet their own performance targets. The state’s health minister says he can turn it around – with some help.
- Angus Thomson
Mapped: The 52 suburban tobacco shops shut down in NSW retail raids
Dozens of tobacco shops have been shut across NSW as the government faces pressure to make a simple planning law change which could halt the booming number of smoke shops operating.
- David Barwell
A healthcare tsunami has crashed onto Sydney’s shores. One nurse’s idea could have spared us
Ten years ago, the Herald projected the full force of the post-war baby boom would hit Sydney’s health system like a tsunami. But what to do about it now?
- Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
Bed block, wait times, bottlenecks: Sydney’s best and worst hospitals revealed
Patients spent longer in NSW emergency departments than at any point since 2010. See how your hospital stacks up.
- Angus Thomson
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- Workplace safety
Drunk engineers, ‘shoddy maintenance’, humiliated patients: Westpac Rescue fights to save reputation
NSW Ambulance assistant commissioner Cameron Edgar said the allegations were “confronting and difficult” for staff.
- Eryk Bagshaw and Patrick Begley