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Scanning through the media coverage of the major parties’ health policies one could be forgiven for thinking that hospital beds are the key to health. Sure, hospital spending dominates the health budget…
New medical technologies and treatments over the past few decades have led to remarkable improvements in treating older patients. The annual death rate for an 80-year-old male in 2011 was just 5.6%, compared…
Death rates for hip fracture patients are almost four times greater in certain New South Wales public hospitals. A study…
Overcrowding in emergency departments is not due to low-urgency patients using resources, as previously thought. Instead…
Patients leaving hospital after intensive care require more support than they are currently getting, researchers at Imperial…
After months of battle between the Commonwealth and Victorian governments on hospital funding, Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek dramatically intervened last Wednesday by announcing a A$107 million…
As Victorian hospitals have announced bed closures, job losses and elective surgery delays over the past six weeks, cuts to health service budgets look set to significantly affect patient care in the state…
A study into the use of IV drips finds that catheters only need to be changed when clinically necessary, and not every three…
The first of July saw the introduction of one of the most important health care reforms for Australia’s public hospitals: national activity-based funding (ABF). Hospitals will now be paid a fixed price…
Reusable tourniquets could be responsible for transmitting superbugs in hospitals, according to research published in the…
Health professionals and patients alike breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she had struck a final deal with the states to reform the nation’s hospital system…
Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…
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