A government review into private hospitals has yet to be made public. In the meantime, here’s whether there’s a case for a government bail-out.
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Too often, prescribing errors occur due to programming errors or poor design and have less to do with the health workers using the system.
Some IV fluids are in short supply due to higher-than-expected demand and manufacturing issues. But why do IV fluids contain different chemicals? And why can’t they be interchanged when one runs low?
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from 1829 show they were wrong.
Medical volunteering can damage important relationships between health professionals and patients.
A virtual ED is typically staffed by emergency doctors, nurses and support staff who can assess patients’ symptoms, provide medical advice, and direct care to the right place.
Surveying more than 5,500 nurses about the realities of their work lives highlights how a shortage of nursing staff could compromise Canadians’ ability to access safe, compassionate care.
This is a structural problem, not something one budget can fix.
Overworking junior doctors has been normalised for decades. And we all suffer.
Has your child fractured a bone? A new report shows it’s the leading type of injury for kids. But the causes of injury change as children grow older and differ between boys and girls.
A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
Keeping wounds clean and infection free has challenged people for thousands of years.
Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
The current triple epidemic of respiratory viruses is affecting all age groups, prompting comparisons with the pre-COVID-19 era.
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
Internal reviews are insufficient to investigate discrimination by hospital administrators and external frameworks are needed to protect employees who face bullying and harassment.
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a Palestinian health specialist.
When people taking part in 22 pilot programs across the US got free fruits and vegetables, their health improved.
Patients who exercised during a hospital stay had a 10% lower risk of being readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge.
Today’s reports of crumbling, dilapidated and dangerous hospital buildings are a far cry from the design ambitions extolled by early NHS architects and planners.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Policy Head, Research Assets, Sax Institute; Co-Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
