Healthcare
Big contracts, little staff amid ‘Uberisation’ of in-home aged care
Private providers are taking over from some Victorian councils to provide in-home aged care despite lacking the staff to service all the additional clients.
- by Cara Waters
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Shorter hospital stays solution to elective surgery backlog, new analysis finds
For his hip replacement operation, Paul Murgatroyd was hospitalised for only one night and a nurse and physiotherapist visited him at home afterwards.
- by Kate Aubusson
‘Ahead of her time’: How Olivia Newton-John used star power to help others
By being open about her metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, she helped break down misconceptions about the disease.
- by Aisha Dow, Clay Lucas and Carolyn Webb
WA hospitals wind back COVID-19 screening
Public hospitals will shift from “red alert” to a new blue alert level from August 15, bringing an end to several months of heightened precautions.
- by Michael Ramsey
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Coronavirus pandemic
New AMA chief says stretched health staff shocked at ‘cost of business’ attitude
Professor Steve Robson, a fertility specialist based in Canberra, was elected to lead the nation’s most high-profile medical group last week.
- by Aisha Dow
A cascade of failures: How Annie Moylan lost her child and her life in Melbourne’s private hospitals
Misdiagnosed from the start, Annie was never given the straightforward treatment that would have saved her. Only through the determination of her parents can her story now be told.
- by Christine Ahern and Thea Dikeos
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Coronavirus pandemic
Brett Sutton says this is ‘key’ to fighting COVID-19
Victoria’s chief health officer says improvements to indoor ventilation can have a lasting impact on the spread of COVID-19, and the lingering impacts of the infectious disease.
- by Aisha Dow
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IVF
Donate women’s unused eggs to research instead of rubbish bin, bioethicists propose
Unclaimed eggs in fertility clinic freezers should be donated by default to help women with mitochondrial disease amid a donor egg shortage, bioethicists say.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Coronavirus pandemic
Victorian patients languish longer in emergency departments and ambulance queues
Victoria’s latest quarterly health performance data shows a dramatic increase in the number of people who have been stuck in emergency departments for more than a day, as they wait for a bed to become available.
- by Aisha Dow and Rachel Eddie
‘I’m totally, utterly done’: The insider take on our growing GP crisis
GPs: underpaid compared to their specialist peers, overloaded with admin, stressed out by COVID-19. The diagnosis: a profession in need of urgent treatment.
- by Amanda Hooton
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Monkeypox
NSW monkeypox vaccine roll out to start on Monday
People most at risk from monkeypox in NSW will have access to the first 5500 vaccine doses from Monday, as sexual health and infectious disease experts warn Australia’s outbreak won’t slow down until 75,000 people get their first shots.
- by Kate Aubusson