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Ambulance response times have not always met targets, but the alarming new pinch point in our health-care system is that there are no ambulances at all available to respond to calls.
Delirium doesn’t just harm vulnerable seniors. It prolongs hospital stays, ties up beds and clogs emergency rooms. Mandating senior-friendly hospital care protects patients and the health-care system.
Being stuck in hospital means NDIS participants lose the gains made in rehabilitation as well as condition, confidence and social connection. Specialist housing is ready and waiting.
A public health expert explains emergency measures recently brought in to manage the impact of Omicron on our stressed health system.
The hospital system is already strained. And this is what we face as Australia prepares to open up.
COVID-19 vaccines could substantially reduce hospital admissions, but will be slower at freeing up space in intensive care.
They’re conducting research, accommodating testing facilities and turning dorms into quarters for medical professionals while also helping people muddle through hard ethical decisions.
Hospitals will need more space, staff and stuff as more people test positive to coronavirus. But hard decisions may have to be made if the health system gets overwhelmed with cases.
Australians should now be practising social distancing to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. By creating more space between yourself and others you decrease the risk of person-to-person…
Canada’s systems of health funding, medical training and physician compensation need an overhaul – to support vital centres of medical research and complex care.
Theresa May claims there are more beds available across the NHS than there used to be.
Our research suggests older people aren’t being admitted inappropriately.
In a time of growing populations, hospitals must guarantee access, ensure quality, minimise the chances of anything going wrong, and do it all within the available budget. So they need to change.
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Director of Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor in Economics, City St George's, University of London
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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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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
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Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University
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Chair in Nursing, Western Health Deakin University Partnership, Deakin University
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Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
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Professor of Nursing and Director of Health Innovations, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University