Twins die in tragic hospital bungle
Superbugs battle a numbers game
Litany of failure: horror hospital stories emerge
Patients at risk in hospital dispute
Report slams medical device alerts
Rogue obstetrician faces 15 counts of abuse, malpractice
Doctors with a downside[criminal record]
Hospital faces scrutiny over heart catheter’s role in baby death
Doctors who rorted may escape penalties
“How does an otherwise healthy ten month old baby go into hospital and not survive?”
Women ‘overdiagnosed’ with breast cancer
Abortion doctor knew he had hepatitis C, court told
Hospital beds will continue to close: union
Hospital failed sex attack victim: mother
Maternity hospital hits a bump
Ambulance hospital delays worse
Hospital facing legal action over mental health deaths
Full disclosure linked to fall in hospital claims
Nurses appeal to hospital chiefs on ratios
State’s hospitals monopolise superbug list
Golden Staph levels “too high” at Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA
Hospital ‘mistake’ caused woman’s death after caesarean
Child porn doctor’s sentence cut
Rape doctor allowed to practice
Patient left paralysed sues Northern Hospital
Surgeons happy to be supported by companies behind hip implants fiasco
Three year old with broken leg turned away from Casey Hospital
Thousands of patients fitted with faulty hip replacements
Poor hospital supply lines endanger patients
Three years to recall problem implants
Hospital research site shrinks as Libs cut cash
Mothers given dangerous drug: inquiry
Full disclosure linked to fall in hospital claims
They gave our mother a man’s name tag and then she died
Superbugs a fact of hospital life
Doctor charged with sexual assault
Babies die as rural mums failed
Mentally ill living conditions ‘Third World’
Hospital stay is a health risk
Drug toxicity death draws coroner fire
Sydney surgeon gets five years’ gaol for prostitute’s fatal drug overdose
State falters at first test of hospital reform
Hospital reprimands its own boss
Living a nightmare in hospital
Nurse stabbed with butter knife: hospital security to be reviewed
Ambulance board gets an emergency bypass
Rules, rosters and a young life lost
Congratulations sir, you’re pregnant!
Denial of rights in psychiatric treatment
Hospitals’ error level revealed
Routine operation ends with death of mother of four
Proposal for hospital bar shocks experts
Bligh to meet doctors over claim patients denied access
Secret bid to restrict hospital visits
Report shows extreme risks in QLD hospital
Hospitals told: don’t turn away patients
Hospitals ‘have a right’ to knock back patients
Children’s medical records strewn in abandoned Melbourne clinic
‘Gentle’ Jacob died because of doctor failures, says coroner
Fake doctor gaoled after abusing trust of friends
Health system awaits a miracle cure
Ambulances tied up at overworked hospitals
Patients killed by doctor may have died in agony, coroner told
Surgery patients put on hold as hospitals close waiting lists
Lost in translation: emergency staff don’t listen properly
Inquest told anaesthetic killed elderly heart patient
Hospital data accusations wrong: NSW govt
Woman to sue after sponge left in her body
Coroner probes boy’s death at hospital
Hospitals pay $33m for botched deliveries
SA hospital cost row intensifies
Overcrowding causes hospital deaths: AMA
Hospital infections kill dozens
Hospital renovation will not alleviate bed shortage, doctors say
Hospital chairs counted as beds
Bed shortage forces mother interstate
Time to be very patient on the lists
Perth doctor suspended after serious errors
Hospital couldn’t find bed for woman in premature labour with twins
Sunshine Coast hospital comes under fire
Slow response in swine flu death
Infant’s death has forced Royal Darwin Hospital changes
Doctors’ hand hygiene ‘horrifying’
It’s time to come clean, new AMA chief tells hospital doctors
Unwashed hands put doctors in legal peril
Patients die waiting in hospital queues
Queensland Health defies data directive over deaths in emergency departments
Study probes peak time for hospital deaths
Hospital death was ‘in Queensland Police custody’
Dr Jayant Patel guilty of manslaughter
Queensland Health admits patient records lack consistency between hospitals
AMAQ demands probe into Nambour hospital deaths
Nambour hospital baby deaths enquiry
Further legal action expected over hospital death
Tocumwal hospital deaths investigation drags on
Victim livid at Bega doctor’s sentence
Surgery waiting lists grow in QLD hospitals
Coroner investigates gall bladder death
Obstetrician faces raft of serious patient complaints
Gaol for rapist GP who took photographs during assaults
Hundreds of patients shunted off surgery lists
Ex-doctor mutilated woman’s genitals, court hears
Hawkesbury hospital apologises for newborn errors
Cuts lock rural sick out of St Vincent’s hospice
Nurses fear bedlam in gaol hospital.
Doctor on register despite sex allegations
WA govt denies death link at hospital
Access to emergency doctors critical
Jayant Patel’s appeal delisted in Court of Appeal due to funding problems
Local nurses support hospital reform
Teen dies after being sent home from hospital
No place for a baby: dysfunctional hospital
Flu vaccine hospitalises more children than the flu
Casey Hospital blunders revealed
The brain infection time bomb which nearly killed teenager Kate Newton
Hospital performance down across Australia: AMA report
Red tape hinders GPs’ clinical work
Doctors profit in waiting list race
Doctor’s records to be checked
Hospitals fall well short of target for treatment
Down syndrome test performed inaccurately by 45% of operators
State’s new emergency beds turn out to be ‘dangerous’ recliners
Sydney newborn died in hospital wait
Hospitals failing to treat critical cases on time
He’s a natural: baby whisperer promises birth policy shake-up
Shamed surgeon’s history of lies
Patients at risk? Yes … and then no
Patients put at risk when disgraced surgeon allowed to work unsupervised
Doctor banned as town’s campaign to save him fails
Trauma plan puts lives at risk, say doctors
Nationwide hospital alert aims to prevent another epidural tragedy
Shamed but not named: bad medics use law to hide their identities
Paying for negligence: Birth bungles cost $115m in NSW alone
Hypervirulent strain of Clostridium difficile in Epworth Hospital in Richmond Melbourne
Scared nurses’ secret evidence of intimidation
No room at the hospital for sick toddler
Hospital blunder turns into family heartache
Obstetric and gynaecology claims
Two baby deaths as a result of ventouse use by the same obstetrician
Hospital workers’ hands off attitude to hygiene
Newborn baby dies after ventouse
Patients are people, not guinea pigs
HIV, hepatitis fears after failings in hygiene care at clinic
Male doctors to get chaperones after sexual misconduct claims
Jayant Patel kept negligence a secret: court
Blaze forces maternity hospital evacuation
NSW Health admits its patient satisfaction figures are rubbery
Doctor charged with indecent assault
A poor state of health: NSW hospitals the worst in the country
Hospital sends mum bill after baby dies
Hospitals operating at dangerous capacities: report
Angliss Hospital under strain – report
Morphine ‘helped kill new mother Petah Kimm’
‘Superbug’ found at Sydney hospital
NSW hospital could face more lawsuits
Nair to face court on murder count
Bega doctor faces more sex assault charges
Forceps Delivery Linked to Later Pelvic Organ Prolapse
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