Hospitals and Healthcare

Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to health care?

Advocates and doctors say the number of people attending specialist check-ups and calling an ambulance for chest pain has dropped dramatically since COVID-19 began, with possibly dire consequences.

I need to debrief and I am only too aware that I am so so so much luckier than some of my colleagues and many of my patients I work in the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. I was unable to get in on Saturday because of the fire (road closure and evacuation orders), worked an extra shift yesterd

Even before the pandemic, doctor-patient relationships were in serious trouble. A mobile population, a shortage of doctors, overwhelming workloads, the move towards part-time working (for many GPs, the only way to endure the pressures of the job), bigger practices, larger teams: all of this gnawed...

A doctor who has been working in Cobargo for decades is continuing to tend to his patients despite his surgery burning down on New Year's Eve.