Hospitals and Healthcare

Patients from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds are at a higher risk of experiencing harm during health care, highlighting the need for clinicians to adapt their approach to better engage with these patients.

Almost 500 health practitioners have been sanctioned for sexual misconduct involving patients. Nearly a third are still allowed to work.

'Tell us again they're teething problems': A new mother had no idea how close she came to dying after undergoing a caesarean section at the Northern Beaches Hospital. 

Litigation may sound like an obvious route for someone who experiences a medical injury. But it's a lengthy and stressful process, and rarely provides relief to patients and their families.

A coroner has criticised a GP's decision to prescribe a chemotherapy drug for a Croydon retiree even through he was warned it could be fatal.

The Fitzpatrick family allege they were subjected to intimidation and bullying at one of NSW’s leading trauma hospitals after the death of their beloved brother and son.

A young girl from Connecticut turned her time spent in the hospital into a chance to help ease the fear of many other young patients.

This MOOC examines three key areas of learning: 

a)      intercultural communication 

b)      multicultural/multidisciplinary teams 

c)      patient safety