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Reducing child, teen obesity can save $7b health costs

Reducing child, teen obesity can save $7b health costs

Reducing the rate of overweight and obesity in Australian kids and teenagers by five per cent could save them more than $7 billion in lifelong health costs.

Taxpayers are topping up health fund profits: analysis

Taxpayers are topping up health fund profits: analysis

Taxpayers are topping up health fund profits: analysis

Taxpayers are topping up health fund profits: analysis

Major health insurers have been accused of expecting NSW hospitals to subsidise their record profits amid a stand-off over who foots hospital bills.

Aged care providers sound alarm on their own future

Aged care providers sound alarm on their own future

Aged care providers sound alarm on their own future

Aged care providers sound alarm on their own future

Half of residential aged care providers say they are losing money, as the industry raised concerns about how it'll cope with Australia's ageing population.

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Insurers warn of bill shock from hospital pay demand

Insurers warn of bill shock from hospital pay demand

NSW officials are demanding private health insurers pay full freight for public hospital stays, suggesting taxpayers are being asked to provide a huge subsidy.

Labor pitches $365m for 50 new GP clinics to woo voters

Labor pitches $365m for 50 new GP clinics to woo voters

Two weeks out from election day, Queensland Labor has made a bold pitch to open 50 bulk-billing GP clinics as the opposition eyes a new dam in the southeast.

'Left no option': Labor faces first mass nurses' strike

'Left no option': Labor faces first mass nurses' strike

Thousands of nurses and midwives will walk off the job in NSW for their first major strike since Labor won power.

'Rotten to the core': racism claim over fatal diagnosis

'Rotten to the core': racism claim over fatal diagnosis

The father of an Indigenous man who was fatally misdiagnosed with a drug-related illness says the doctor responsible shouldn't be treating patients.

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Aussies delay dental treatment as cost of living bites

Aussies delay dental treatment as cost of living bites

Aussies delay dental treatment as cost of living bites

Aussies delay dental treatment as cost of living bites

Only one-in-three Australians visits the dentist regularly as costs keep them away, while the dental association calls on government to expand subsidies.

SA Health staff suspended over medical records breach

SA Health staff suspended over medical records breach

SA Health staff suspended over medical records breach

SA Health staff suspended over medical records breach

The patient records of a hit-run crash victim, believed to be the son of the state's police commissioner, were inappropriately accessed, an SA audit found.

Mother of Bondi stabbing victim pleads for more support

Mother of Bondi stabbing victim pleads for more support

Mother of Bondi stabbing victim pleads for more support

Mother of Bondi stabbing victim pleads for more support

A disjointed mental health sector means people are falling through the cracks, with the level of care dependent on where you live, a grieving mother says.

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

A chronic shortage in NDIS and aged-care placements is crippling the NSW hospital system, the state's health minister says.

Call for support as eye care becomes too dear for many

Call for support as eye care becomes too dear for many

Call for support as eye care becomes too dear for many

Call for support as eye care becomes too dear for many

Australians without private health insurance need more support for eye care with about one in four patients unable to afford treatment, researchers say.

Push for transparent national hate-crime database

Push for transparent national hate-crime database

Push for transparent national hate-crime database

Push for transparent national hate-crime database

A push is underway for an independent, national database to track hate-motivated crime data and keep pace with the risks and threats extremists pose.

Undiagnosed leukaemia caused toddler's hospital death

Undiagnosed leukaemia caused toddler's hospital death

Undiagnosed leukaemia caused toddler's hospital death

Undiagnosed leukaemia caused toddler's hospital death

A toddler's death from complications of an undiagnosed blood cancer is being investigated with the boy's parents saying they repeatedly asked for tests.

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Elderly left waiting months for care as demand surges

Older Australians are being forced to wait longer for home care as demands blows out, with an ageing population set to exacerbate the issue in coming decades.

Nurses' staffing shortfall fight thrown out of court

A judge has dismissed a nursing union's legal bid to have the NSW government hit with penalties over staffing shortfalls.

Funding package to help women who suffer miscarriages

A $9.5 million funding package to help women who have experienced miscarriage has been announced by the federal government.

Consumers tipped to stash tax-cut savings for rainy day

Australians plan to stash their stage three tax cut cash, a key cost of living relief measure in the budget, in promising news for inflation

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Calls for more GP funding after bulk-billing rise

After a rise to the bulk-billing rate, the country's peak medical body has urged for funding boosts to ensure GPs remain sustainable.

New hope for Aussies battling early stage breast cancer

Australians who face a high chance of cancer returning have been given new hope with the federal government expanding a treatment subsidy.

Half of nurses, midwives considering leaving profession

Nearly 10,000 healthcare workers are fed up with understaffing and exhaustion and are considering leaving the industry, a union says.

Melbourne's original injecting room to stay

Extra support will be given to Melbourne's sole supervised drug injecting facility after the Victorian government scrapped plans to push ahead with a second.

Australia's healthcare system delivers value for money

The Productivity Commission has released a new report on the nation's healthcare system which concludes it is delivering significant returns on investment.

Dumping of second city injection room 'will cost lives'

A second supervised injecting room will not be built in Melbourne, after the state government rejected a report recommending one for the CBD.

Sick boy was 'so much worse' when let go from hospital

A coroner is investigating the circumstances that led to a 19-month-old boy's death from meningitis after he was seen by multiple health professionals.

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