Long lines of ambulances have hit the headlines in recent weeks. But ‘ramping’ isn’t a new problem for patients or paramedics. COVID means we must fix it now.
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Some older patients forego the food provided at their health care facility because it isn’t aligned with their religious and cultural preferences.
Scott Morrison has slammed the Queensland government, as the states press for extra funding to support their hospitals as the nation reopens
If you feel like you’re having a medical emergency then you should still go to hospital. Expect longer waits and extra precautions.
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
Watch Lotti Tajouri explain how mobile phones are vectors for bacteria and viruses, why this is a problem in our hospitals, and how you can sanitise your phone to help stop the spread of disease.
The hospital system is already strained. And this is what we face as Australia prepares to open up.
Around 70% of front-line health workers said they were exhausted in 2020. With COVID hospitalisations expected to rise in coming weeks, the pressure is about to get a whole lot worse.
Although stretched thin and imperfect, health care workers do our best for everyone who needs us, regardless of the personal choices people have made.
Outsourcing is common in many hospitals. But when health care systems outsource certain clinical tasks to separate companies, costs can go up, quality of care can fall and patients can be harmed.
Most nurses spoke of having to contend with family members who assumed patients should rest as much as possible.
We tried our hardest to provide the best care in dire circumstances. There wasn’t an alternative.
Hospitals have a lot of room to reduce, reuse and recycle supplies – as many were forced to discover during the pandemic.
A year after it became clear that COVID-19 was becoming a pandemic, there is still no cure, but doctors have several innovative treatments. Some are keeping patients out of the hospital entirely.
Publishing hospitalisation data is a good start. But ultimately we need information about each aged care facility’s performance to be publicly available.
The Productivity Commission this week released the health section of its Report on Government Services. But what does it tell us, and why is it important?
Rural health care will have to transform to survive.
Faced unexpected rises in COVID-19 admissions, computer models can help senior managers plan the use of hospital beds.
Eight former directors of the collapsed super-contractor face being banned for up to 15 years if they are found to be unfit to run a company.
Nurses are not heroes – they are technically expert professional carers with unique skills. And they are struggling.
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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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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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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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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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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
