AAP - 22-09-2022

Victoria's child protection system is failing to keep proper records on some vulnerable children and workers are over-stretched and under resourced. The Department

AAP - 12-09-2022

Every Victorian emergency department should have security working around the clock to protect staff from unruly patients, Australia's top emergency medicine college says.

AAP - 22-08-2022

More emergency call takers and dispatchers have started work in South Australia in a move to ease pressure on the state's ambulance service. The government

AAP - 30-07-2022

There is hope Western Australia is past the peak of its COVID-19 and flu outbreaks as ambulance ramping figures reach new heights. Ambulances have spent 6531

AAP - 19-07-2022

A Victorian hospital's virtual emergency department program will be doubled in a bid to relieve COVID-related pressure on sick and tired paramedics. Hundreds

AAP - 17-06-2022

Indigenous Australians living in remote, shabby housing with unstable electricity connections in the Northern Territory's extreme heat are enduring life-threatening conditions.

AAP - 18-05-2022

The Queensland government has promised to release hospital emergency department waiting time data and complete a probe into Mackay Hospital by the end of the month after the

AAP - 13-05-2022

A top Victorian doctor has quit his job in protest at mounting staff burnout and falling care standards after two torrid years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outgoing

AAP - 11-05-2022

Emergency waiting times and ambulance ramping have been increasing in recent years in Queensland with the problems exacerbated by COVID-19. Queensland Police

AAP - 05-05-2022

Nurse Pen McLachlan says she has many horror stories about working in a rural hospital. There is one about a cook sitting with a stroke patient in the Condobolin