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No quick ramping fix amid WA health spend

AAP - 03-05-2022

Western Australia's government will pour a further $252 million into emergency departments amid warnings there is no quick fix to near-record ambulance ramping.

 
DNA donation law passes parliament

AAP - 31-03-2022

Federal parliament has legalised partial DNA donations capable of stopping deadly mitochondrial disease in babies. The laws have been labelled as game changing,

 
Doctors and nurses worldwide point to roadmap to future-proof healthcare

Charlotte Mitchell - 22-03-2022

Thousands of doctors and nurses from across the globe have revealed exactly what it will take to fill gaps and future-proof today’s healthcare system, in a new report

 
Record private health sign-up to beat wait

AAP - 06-03-2022

Australians are signing up to private health insurance in record numbers to avoid hospital waiting lists. Six consecutive quarters of membership growth has resulted

 
SA doctors call for more health funding

AAP - 25-02-2022

South Australia's doctors have called for major investment to improve a health "system in crisis", urging voters to carefully scrutinise promises from political

 
NSW's $4 billion spend on pandemic health

AAP - 23-02-2022

In the past two years the NSW government has committed more than $4 billion to the state's health system to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The

 
SA Labor pledges 300 more nurses

AAP - 23-02-2022

Labor has pledged to recruit 300 more nurses for South Australian hospitals if the party wins the March state election. The promise includes 212 extra staff to

 
Victoria to lift code brown health alert

AAP - 13-02-2022

Elective surgery will scale up again in Victoria as the state lifts its code brown pandemic alert for the health system. The unprecedented alert was issued in

 
Nth Qld pharmacy trial has doctors worried

AAP - 11-02-2022

Giving pharmacists the power to diagnose and treat a wider range of conditions is not the answer to health shortages in regional Queensland, doctors say. A trial

 
Blood donor COVID recovery wait time cut

AAP - 19-01-2022

Australians who recover from a bout of COVID-19 will only need to wait seven days to give blood under a new policy change amid the Omicron wave. With more than

 

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