Health Administration

Almost 8,000 trainee doctors in South Korea have walked off the job in protest against the government's recent plan to recruit more students to medical schools. Here's why they're happening and whether there's support for them.

A country NSW MP says he had been contacted by patients whose elective surgeries were suddenly cancelled by the hospital without any explanation.

Plans to build a co-located private hospital at the Launceston General Hospital have been shelved just months before construction was due to start — with fears that will make Tasmania's growing waiting lists worse.

An inquest hears evidence from a general practitioner who had treated a man who later died after seeking help from an Adelaide emergency department multiple times.

An inquest begins into the deaths of two young men who sought help several times from Adelaide emergency departments during the COVID pandemic, with one allegedly told by paramedics that he was being "over dramatic" before he died at home.

A social worker tells an inquest into the death of a baby boy, 11 days after he was discharged from a north Queensland hospital, that she did not report her concerns about his parents to the Department of Child Safety.

Nick Ham lost about half his body weight after spending more than $20,000 on bariatric surgery -- much of it paid for by his dad, who withdrew from his superannuation on compassionate grounds.

Liberal MP Richard Riordan is at odds with his own party leader over his defence of Colac Area Health, following allegations staff and their family members posed as urgent care patients during a ministerial visit.

We ask people for their experiences of Tasmania's ailing health system and hear of misdiagnoses, long waits for treatment or, worse still, no treatment at all. But we also receive some good reports.

Some women who desperately want to breastfeed their babies are giving up because of a lack of support in regional and rural Australia. 

This year's Australia Day honours has recognised a variety of Australians from well-known media personalities to those working away behind the scenes. 

The doctor in charge of the Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department says the lack of inpatient beds is creating a dangerous situation every day.

The South Australian Ambulance Service has defended its response time after a grandmother with cancer and in "extreme agony" was left waiting for paramedics last year.

Over the past five years, 136 people died in Tasmanian hospitals in the 24 hours after being "ramped", a parliamentary inquiry has been told. But the Health Department warns against drawing conclusions.

A Victorian health service says staff are taking mental health leave or leaving the health sector altogether in response to an average of 30 to 40 incidents of violence and aggression each week.

A screenshot of a dispatch system showing all ambulances unavailable is presented by a union as further evidence of the worsening "crisis" in southern Tasmania's health system — as the government says holiday season "injuries" are adding to the fleet's workload.

St Vincent's Health says there is evidence that "some data" has been removed from its system, but it is still working to determine what information had been stolen.

Increasingly priced out of the locum GP market, Streaky Bay's community-run medical clinic often has no doctor, which leaves nursing staff and volunteer ambulance members facing greater workloads.

Under federal law, health insurers can increase premiums once a year but must seek the minister's approval.

Hundreds of nursing vacancies across the state are being filled by agency nurses on locum rates, in a cycle described by health officials as "completely unsustainable".

Health directories are enabling people in regional communities to find specialty health services, allowing them to take control of their healthcare journeys and avoid being whisked from practitioner to practitioner.

The Opposition says Labor is breaking an election promise by reducing the opening hours of urgent care clinics that were announced ahead of last year's federal election.

Negotiations between the New South Wales government and health unions are crumbling as both parties appear stuck on four-year pay details. 

The Geraldton Health Campus redevelopment was supposed to be complete last year, but major delays mean work won't begin until next year.

A businessman trying to set up a private crematorium in Perth says the state government's efforts to block him mean that West Australians are paying the highest fees in the country.