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HealthNZ takes knife to health system

The New Zealand government has pledged once-in-a-generation reforms to its health system.

Ben McKay

System under pressureCommentsPremiumMcGowan downplays Bunbury Hospital’s ‘toxic’ claims

Premier Mark McGowan has labelled the issue-plagued Bunbury Hospital as ‘great’ despite doctors claiming the toxic culture is still negatively impacting patient care.

Briana Fiore

COVID caseCommentsPremiumWill Premier burst NZ travel bubble after COVID case?

Mark McGowan is getting ‘advice’ on whether WA should leave the 24-hour-old travel bubble with New Zealand after an airport worker from across the ditch tested positive for COVID-19.

Briana Fiore

HealthLatest snapshot of the coronavirus impact

The latest snapshot of COVID-19 cases, measures and impacts in Australia at 1630 AEST on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

AAP

‘No room for complacency’VideoCommentsPremiumGrim asbestos warning for cyclone-ravaged areas

A respiratory expert has urged residents in cyclone-ravaged towns to wear masks when handling asbestos, as it is revealed that ‘background levels’ of airborne asbestos have been detected in Kalbarri.

Sarah Steger

Parents on alertCommentsPerth hit by spate of hand, foot and mouth disease

A top doctor has warned of an upsurge in hand, foot and mouth disease in Perth, with kids and adults suffering painful symptoms after contracting the highly contagious virus.

Ben O'Shea

HealthVic council's mozzie spraying 'reckless'

A senate inquiry into a possible cancer cluster on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has heard the council regularly sprayed mosquitoes near parks and schools.

Liz Hobday

Bubble bursterVideoNZ airport worker tests positive to COVID-19

An Auckland Airport worker has tested positive to COVID-19 in New Zealand’s first community case since the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble.

Ben McKay

HealthStudy finds how to mend a broken heart

Australian researchers say they're the first in the world to find a way to prevent and reverse damage caused by broken-heart syndrome.

Maureen Dettre

HealthAust blood bank pushes for UK ban re-think

The Australian Red Cross is preparing a submission for the nation's medicines regulator to reconsider a ban on some UK visitors and residents donating blood.

Callum Godde

COVID vaccineCommentsPremiumHotel quarantine workers forced to receive jab

Hotel quarantine workers will be forced to get the COVID jab from May 10 under a new Public Health Order announced today by Health Minister Roger Cook.

Briana Fiore

See the picturesCommentsPremium‘You have no idea what this means’

Tears of joy, squeals of ‘nanna!’ and embraces transformed the arrivals hall at Perth Airport this afternoon, as loved ones locked eyes and exchanged hugs for the first time in more than a year.

Sarah Steger

Locked inCommentsPremiumREVEALED: Ben Wyatt’s first post-politics role

Ben Wyatt is following in the footsteps of another high-profile former WA politician in his first gig post-politics, after joining the board of a ‘household name’.

Peter Law

COVID scareCommentsSecond PPE breach at Royal Perth Hospital

A full review is underway after the breach involving a COVID-19 patient at Royal Perth Hospital.

Briana Fiore

HealthCombustible cladding to be removed in NSW

Four years after a high-rise residential tower in London was engulfed in flames a decision has been made to remove combustible cladding in 214 NSW buildings.

Tiffanie Turnbull

HealthScreening to cut premature births in SA

A new screening program is being introduced in South Australia in a bid to reduce the number of premature births.

Tim Dornin

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Staggering amount of antidepressants given to WA kids

Remarkably antidepressants were also prescribed to WA children aged five and under on hundreds of occasions last year, despite a lack of evidence they work for young children.

Angela Pownall

HealthWalk-in vaccination for Victorians over 70

People aged over 70 will be able to get vaccinated at Victorian vaccine hubs without an appointment from Wednesday as the state ramps up its rollout.

Hannah Ryan

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Doctors call for PCH ‘revolving door’ to stop

The ‘revolving door’ at Perth Children’s Hospital needs to stop — Australian Medical Association Chief Andrew Miller has warned — after revelations the facility had three bosses in three years.

Joe Spagnolo

Devastating funeralVideoCommentsPremium‘Nothing more tragic’: Heartache at Aishwarya farewell

The devastated family and friends of Aishwarya Aswath, who died at Perth Children’s Hospital after a two-hour wait in emergency, today remembered the seven-year-old as ‘kind, gentle and caring’.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Transmission fearsVideoVirus ‘jumped’ between hotel rooms

NSW Health has raised concerns COVID-19 may have jumped between neighbouring rooms in hotel quarantine, after seven cases from different countries in adjacent rooms had the same sequence.

Hannah Ryan

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Patients lose outCommentsPremium
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Doctors hate working at Bunbury Hospital

Four out of five doctors at Bunbury Hospital say the bad culture at the issue-plagued facility had a negative impact on service delivery to patients.

Briana Fiore

Clot deathVideoWoman who died after jab named

The identity of the NSW woman who died with blood clots days after her AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination has been revealed.

AAP and staff writers

HealthVirus risk trumps those of vaccine: study

A new Oxford University study has found the risk of blood clots posed by a COVID-19 infection is eight times that of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Tiffanie Turnbull

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