Healthcare
You’re more likely to die from COVID-19 if you live in these areas
The council area of Brimbank in Melbourne’s west has had the highest number of COVID deaths in Victoria in the first four months of the year, more than its death toll for all of 2021.
- by Chloe Booker
Latest
People dying of COVID while life-saving drugs go unused, doctors say
Top doctors have warned that vulnerable patients who test positive to COVID-19 are missing out on potentially life-saving antiviral treatments.
- by Lucy Carroll
Exclusive
Healthcare
Doctor left with $1m bill after RAT import deal with bikie boss sours
The well known doctor entered a business arrangement with a top bikie and his associates to import $1 million worth of RATs ... then the bottom fell out of the market.
- by Cameron Houston
‘Absolutely distressing’: COVID-19 drives spike in elderly people dying at home
More Victorian families are caring for their dying loved ones at home, as elderly people are increasingly avoiding aged care facilities for end-of-life care.
- by Timna Jacks
Updated
Healthcare
‘Not the time to throw blame at GPs’: RACGP hits back over hospital crisis
Both Health Minister Yvette D’Ath and Deputy Premier Steven Miles had attributed some of the strain on hospitals to the lack of GPs.
- by Cloe Read
Opinion
Australia votes
Without radical reform, the prognosis for our health system is grim
Healthcare workers are leaving the sector in droves, not because they want to, but because they are being asked to work beyond their capacity.
- by Dr Neela Janakiramanan
Opinion
Healthcare
Time to fix our health system that’s as broken as my leg
A broken leg took Helen Pitt to the emergency room who returned with a diagnosis: our healthcare system is sick.
- by Helen Pitt
Exclusive
Healthcare
‘Hopelessly overwhelmed’: Sydney hospitals treat patients in corridors, ambulance trolleys
One senior doctor said bed block - when hospitals are clogged with patients they do not have the beds to admit - was the “worst it has been” in decades.
- by Lucy Carroll
‘Massive health gaps’: the Sydney electorates where voters live an extra decade
Voters in the seats of Bradfield, North Sydney and Wentworth have some of the lowest death rates in Australia, according to new analysis that reveals the huge and growing gaps in lifespans across electorates.
- by Lucy Carroll
Foley blames federal government’s deliberate, willful neglect for hospital woes
Victoria’s health minister says the pressure on the state’s healthcare system is “simply untenable” without Commonwealth investment.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Josh Gordon
About 2800 people were in hospital at Omicron’s peak. How many caught it there?
Health experts are calling for the compulsory reporting of all hospital-acquired infections including COVID-19 to prevent further deaths.
- by Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll