Tag: Hospitals
Royal Perth Hospital the first public hospital with electronic prescriptions – A National First
In a first for public hospitals nationally, patients at Royal Perth Hospital can now obtain electronic prescriptions that can be dispensed at community pharmacies.
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Omicron is overwhelming Australia’s hospital system. 3 emergency measures aim to ease the burden
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Public hospitals – never with much spare capacity – have been severely stressed by the latest COVID wave.
The current Omicron outbreak has...
WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them
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COVID-19 has seen the world embrace sanitisers and formal hand washing procedures in our private lives like never before. But...
Even in a pandemic, continue with routine health care and don’t ignore a medical emergency
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As we continue to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, many hospitals and health services are actually less busy than usual.
Fewer patients are presenting to emergency departments...
Money for hospital emergency departments in Shorten’s campaign launch
Shorten will say that Labor is offering “the biggest
health care plan any party has ever offered at an election”.
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Bill Shorten announced funding...
The Coalition’s report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
The Coalition’s record on health is patchy, at best.
Meanwhile, Labor is already campaigning hard on Medicare. Shutterstock
The Turnbull/Morrison government has a mixed record,...