A leaked WA Health email lays out plans to cease the majority of ambulance ramping, place overflow patients on “trolleys” in emergency departments and use police cars to transport patients to hospitals.
Josh Zimmerman
A new Heart Research Institute study will look at whether exercise will help rather than hinder Australians born with half a heart.
Tara Cosoleto
Sausage sizzles and bake sales are great election-day fundraisers, but care is needed to ensure they don't become spreaders of foodborne illness, experts say.
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Austria is making it easier for gay men and trans people to donate blood, saying the rules should be the same regardless of sexual preference or orientation.
A major hospital in Perth’s southern suburbs has been plunged into code yellow, with staff forced to treat at least 10 patients without beds.
Michael Traill
NSW has confirmed the first case of monkeypox in the state making it the second nationwide with another case in Victoria. Here’s what we know.
The McGowan government may intervene to save Activ workshops from closing, saying the sites employing more than 700 people with disability ‘need to stay open’.
Rebecca Le May and Josh Zimmerman
Mark McGowan has ruled out bringing the State’s ambulance service into the public sector during this current term – and says the recommendation that St John be given five years to improve is ‘reasonable’.
Josh Zimmerman & Michael Traill
A disability services provider will consider the issue of redress, including financial compensation, for clients who were abused at one of its Sydney programs.
Tim Dornin
Mark McGowan has questioned whether GPs diverting patients with respiratory illnesses away from their practices were in breach of the Hippocratic Oath.
NSW spent $7.5 billion in its response to COVID-19 funded largely by borrowing but it also underspent on crucial PPE and overspent on faulty equipment.
Farid Farid
WA daily COVID cases have dipped overnight to 15,205 new infections, after a record high on Thursday.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Australians in isolation due to COVID-19 will be able to vote in the federal election following last-minute changes to electoral rules.
A warning for monkeypox has been issued in Victoria following cases of the rare disease being reported in parts of Europe.
More than 20 Victorians have died while waiting for an ambulance since October last year, a budget estimates hearing has been told.
Callum Godde and Tara Cosoleto
Researchers warn people with a taste for crocodile that eating the reptile's meat could trigger dangerous reactions if they're allergic to fish.
Robyn Wuth
St John WA chief executive Michelle Fyfe has labelled the suggestion the not-for-profit is financially incentivised to ramp its ambulances outside hospitals ‘insulting’.
St John WA had a qualified paramedic stationed at Joondalup Health Campus at the time Georgina Wild dialled triple zero complaining of chest pains – but never deployed them to assist the 80-year-old woman.
A neighbour has revealed how he tried in vain to save an elderly man who was waiting for an ambulance — just hours after grandmother Georgina Wild died on Sunday — leaving his family feeling ‘traumatised’.
Brianna Dugan
A parliamentary inquiry has recommended St John WA be given up to five years to improve ambulance services before the WA Government awards the contract to a new provider or takes control of the fleet itself.
She’s been known for being skinny herself, but now Victoria Beckham has said super-skinny is out of vogue
Angela Pownall
Hours after Perth grandmother Georgina Wild died alone on her couch waiting for an ambulance to arrive, an elderly man also passed away from a suspected heart attack as WA’s ambulance crisis continues.
Kellie Balaam
Time ran out for Geraldton grandmother Joan Hope. Then it ran out for 80-year-old Ashby woman Georgina Wild. It is now fast running out for St John WA chief executive Michelle Fyfe.
Michelle Fyfe has welcomed the McGowan Government ‘clearing the path’ for greater cooperation with DFES and police but could offer no explanation for why fireys had not been utilised to drive ambulances sooner.
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