Healthcare Facilities

Eleven hospital expansions across Queensland and four new builds in Coomera, Toowoomba, Bundaberg and Brisbane will go ahead under the LNP government, despite costs escalating significantly.

Doctors and nurses say patient care could be compromised if the SA government pushes ahead with plans to shift the infectious diseases unit out of Adelaide’s biggest public hospital and move it to a site across the road.

Tens of thousands more patients are leaving NSW emergency departments before getting treatment compared with before the pandemic, new data shows.

Letby has been found guilty of killing eight babies and attempting to kill seven more, but experts say they believe the evidence that convicted her was "meaningless".

A training program to help combat a "national crisis" of rising hospital violence puts emergency department workers into situations with virtual aggressive patients.

The Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service is investigating the third incident of a patient wandering from one of its hospitals in almost two years.

The Australians of the Year Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long are credited with saving thousands of lives. Here is the acceptance speech in full.

There's been fierce debate over the location of WA's new $1.8 billion maternity hospital. So what will people be voting for in tomorrow's state election, which the Liberals have branded a "referendum on newborn safety".

The family of an Indigenous man who died after being discharged from Dubbo Hospital say they want to ensure the government lives up to its promise to improve its care. 

Hundreds of clinicians, residents and council representatives rallied on the steps of Parliament House, urging the Victorian government to rethink the hospital plan.

The Albury hospital redevelopment is set to cost the state and federal governments more than $500 million, but critics say it will still be below par. 

The health minister says a historical quirk is behind why two-thirds of existing and promised Medicare urgent care clinics are in Labor-held seats, and they are committed based on need.

The 88-year-old pontiff has been in hospital since mid-February after suffering an "isolated" breathing crisis, and has thanked wellwishers for their prayers. 

Labor is promising to expand the existing 87-clinic network if re-elected, with this $644 million promise coming on top of the $8.5 billion pledged last weekend to lift bulk-billing rates.

Staff and patients at one Latrobe Regional Hospital in Gippsland say an urgent overhaul is needed after a series of preventable patient deaths. Staff have told the ABC of systemic issues which have affected patient safety.

There are growing calls for an independent inquiry into a series of deaths and medical traumas at Latrobe Regional Hospital.

Medical staff at one of Victoria's biggest regional hospitals have told the ABC that for every death at the facility, there are many close calls. Grieving and angry parents are demanding an independent investigation into staffing and care standards.

Long waits in overcrowded emergency departments are leaving patients frustrated and exacerbating violence towards staff, according to the peak body for emergency medicine.

Queensland Health is criticised for moving away from holding independent investigations into patient suicides on the Gold Coast in favour of in-house probes that let treating staff review the care.

A doctor who has saved "hundreds, if not thousands" of lives over nine years is retiring, which means the only skin cancer clinic on the Eyre Peninsula could shut.