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Super-size me? The plan to move mothers’ groups and baby check-ups out of the suburbs
Any new parent will be familiar with the small offices at which child health nurses host baby check-ups, help with breastfeeding and host mothers’ groups. But could bigger be better?
- by Hamish Hastie
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Industrial relations
If you can’t beat ’em: WA nurses step up pay fight with political push
The union will only move forward if the bulk of its membership supports the idea, but this is likely – and nurses’ pay would be only one part of its platform.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Nedlands
Minister’s stance on ‘small’ number of sick, premature babies requiring surgery fast ‘incredibly upsetting’
Helping Little Hands’ Joanne Beedie said there was only about 30 babies impacted by moving the mums and babies hospital sounded like those lives might be less valuable.
- by Hamish Hastie
Help for parents to ensure doctors don’t ignore fears over dying kids
Victoria will establish an advocacy system for hospitals to ensure that the concerns of parents are escalated after a rise in preventable deaths and harm among children.
- by Rachel Eddie
‘Crumbling system’: More sick Victorians endure 24-hour waits in emergency
The latest health performance data shows a rise in the number of people languishing in emergency departments as they wait for a bed.
- by Henrietta Cook
Inside the WA school where teachers are ‘just as important as doctors’
Their role within the health system is not well known, but teachers employed to work in WA hospitals play an integral part in helping sick kids recover.
- by Holly Thompson
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Bushfires
Welcome to the big smoke: hazy days from WA prescribed burns triple in a decade
Spring is coming, and that means the city will be cloaked in days of smoke as authorities take advantage of every opportunity to meet their prescribed burning target.
- by Sarah Brookes
Hospital given ultimatum over delay in creating children’s crisis beds
The Northern Beaches Hospital has eight weeks to explain why children in crisis have nowhere to go more than a year after it was given $7.5 million.
- by Laura Banks
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Healthcare
A record number of patients wait in our EDs. Can NSW’s hospital crisis be solved?
The pandemic put pressure on NSW hospitals like never before. But as the emergency phase ends, we examine what can be done to get us to a better ‘new normal’.
- by Laura Banks and Angus Thomson
Perth teenager addicted to ‘nangs’ leaves hospital after three-month ordeal
A Perth teenager addicted to nangs is finally going home after three months in hospital during which she had to relearn to walk.
- by Michael Genovese
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Hospitals in crisis
Two nurses planned to get married. By the end of the year they were both dead
Vicki Rowe has revealed conversations with her niece, an enrolled nurse at Cumberland Hospital who took her own life just months after becoming engaged.
- by Michael McGowan