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Bushfires
Welcome to the big smoke: hazy days from WA prescribed burns triple in a decade
Spring is coming, and that means the city will be cloaked in days of smoke as authorities take advantage of every opportunity to meet their prescribed burning target.
- by Sarah Brookes
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Hospital given ultimatum over delay in creating children’s crisis beds
The Northern Beaches Hospital has eight weeks to explain why children in crisis have nowhere to go more than a year after it was given $7.5 million.
- by Laura Banks
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Healthcare
A record number of patients wait in our EDs. Can NSW’s hospital crisis be solved?
The pandemic put pressure on NSW hospitals like never before. But as the emergency phase ends, we examine what can be done to get us to a better ‘new normal’.
- by Laura Banks and Angus Thomson
Perth teenager addicted to ‘nangs’ leaves hospital after three-month ordeal
A Perth teenager addicted to nangs is finally going home after three months in hospital during which she had to relearn to walk.
- by Michael Genovese
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Hospitals in crisis
Two nurses planned to get married. By the end of the year they were both dead
Vicki Rowe has revealed conversations with her niece, an enrolled nurse at Cumberland Hospital who took her own life just months after becoming engaged.
- by Michael McGowan
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Hospitals in crisis
Staff at Sydney hospital raised ‘bullying’ concerns more than a year before nurse deaths
The deaths of two nurses at Cumberland Hospital followed warnings from staff about a “culture of bullying and intimidation”.
- by Michael McGowan
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Teo controversy
Charlie Teo called him a liar on TV. Now Gene Howard wants to know why
Gene Howard was distressed to see the neurosurgeon on Channel Seven’s Spotlight program, suggesting he lied to the media about being unhappy with the operation on his daughter, Bella.
- by Kate McClymont
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Hospitals in crisis
Nurse said she suffered ‘sustained bullying, sexual harassment’ at hospital before death
A nurse at the centre of a criminal probe against NSW Health penned a letter before her death in which she warned the psychiatric ward where she worked had become “toxic and damaging”.
- by Michael McGowan
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State Parliament
NSW Health facing criminal prosecution over deaths of two nurses
Details of the case remain secret, and friends of the nurses remain in the dark about why the two women died within weeks of each other.
- by Michael McGowan
TAFE nursing graduates drop by 40 per cent as pressure mounts on WA workforce
The number of students graduating from nursing qualifications at TAFE as dropped significantly over the past five years.
- by Sarah Brookes and Holly Thompson
‘Running between rooms’: Midwife shortage causing trauma and burnout
Every year more than 100 midwives stop working in the field in NSW, as births, medical intervention and allegations of abuse by mothers in maternity wards increase.
- by Amber Schultz