Healthcare Facilities

One of Australia's largest medical imaging providers, Integral Diagnostics, says it will look into allegations of improper Medicare billing at a regional WA public hospital where the company provides radiology services. 

As many medically well patients wait in public hospitals for a spot in aged care, their bodies begin to deteriorate at a rate experts believe is preventable.

Are hospitals in safe seats being overlooked for multi-million-dollar refurbishments by the Victorian government?

A private medical imaging provider operating in a public hospital has been billing Medicare for some services that are not eligible for bulk billing, according to an internal memo obtained by the ABC.

The new Women's and Children's Hospital was priced at $3.2 billion in 2022, before inflation and other pressures sent costs in the construction industry soaring.

Victims of alleged abuse at a Queensland mental health facility have been left disappointed after the state's health minister did not offer a public apology.

Kalbarri residents will be forced to travel more than 100 kilometres to visit a doctor when the regional WA town's only GP clinic closes due to financial pressure.

The ACT government unveils details of the new North Canberra Hospital as part of its latest budget, with the total cost of the project now expected to be $1.5 billion. 

Hervey Bay residents are calling for the state government to provide crucial funding to prevent a hospice facility from closing its doors.

Primary care providers being forced to cut services after losing Tasmanian government funding say the result will be added strain on "pressure cooker" emergency departments, which could see them "explode".

The exodus of executives is continuing at embattled Albury Wodonga Health, with the board chair announcing he will not be seeking reappointment when his term ends.

Regional Queensland is facing a shortage of dermatologists, leaving some patients increasingly desperate.  

The Queensland premier has opened the state's first major new public hospital in almost a decade — at Springfield, south-west of Brisbane — but it won't offer some services for religious reasons.

Tasmania's largest private mental health hospital, which was given a $2 million lifeline by the state government last year, had its corporate governance placed under review, following a formal complaint by the facility's former chief executive.

An incident that prompted a Tasmanian hospital theatre to evacuate, and left several staff feeling ill, was possibly caused by chloroform, documents reveal.

Jamie hopes his small town's almost decade-long run without a permanent GP is about to end, so he will not have to keep repeating his story to every doctor who passes through. 

Discussing how people want to be treated at the end of their life can be hard, but experts say planning can bring dignity and comfort.

The number of aged care patients stuck in hospitals has jumped by 35 per cent in less than a year, fuelling fresh demands for the federal government to stem the crisis.

More than 100 senior clinicians from a major regional hospital raise concerns in a letter to the state government about hospital culture.

Patients entering Canberra Hospital's Behavioural Assessment Unit will now undergo metal detector screening after a knife incident forced staff into a three-hour lockdown.