Hospitals and Healthcare

As the health safety watchdog warns on ambulance delays, the BBC investigates the case of 94-year-old Ken Shadbolt.

The public deserves an ambulance service that advocates for their staff and their patients, not the needs of politicians who want a simple number to demonstrate their effectiveness.

Son praises his mother's fighting legacy, after rest home failures trigger reform.

Cardiac-arrest survival rates halved in Victoria during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic as strict safety protocols delayed paramedics.

Scott Shorten takes patients to meet the flying doctor in the back of his ute. Thanks to the help of strangers hundreds of kilometres away, his small community will soon have its own ambulance.

A recent study revealed that ambulance usage is dropping in the United States, and researchers believe ride sharing services like Uber are to blame.

Long lines of ambulances have hit the headlines in recent weeks. But ‘ramping’ isn’t a new problem for patients or paramedics. COVID means we must fix it now.

Judge Rachel Freier has helped dozens of Orthodox Jewish women in New York City get training and start work as emergency medical technicians. In doing so, she challenged her community’s conception of the role women can play in public and professional life.

Karimul Haque's mother died because she couldn't get to a hospital. Turning grief into action, he started a free ambulance service in rural India.

Before the ambulance existed, if outback Queensland locals had and emergency, they had to drive to themselves to hospital.

Ambulances are being painted with anti-violence messages in protest at Tuesday’s decision to quash the jail sentences of two women who attacked a paramedic.