Health Policy

Canberra Health Services walks back a proposal to block non-ACT residents from accessing specialist medical appointments at the Canberra Hospital, as part of its plan to reduce massive patient backlogs.

Many 26- to 65-year-olds who "fell between the cracks" when it came to accessing government assistance have turned to Sarah Dockrell and her hearing aid bank.

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s professor Margie Danchin says many mothers have been discouraged by the vaccines’ cost of up to $350.

A Victorian woman was left waiting three hours for an ambulance while suffering a potentially catastrophic brain bleed, amid the state's ongoing ambulance crisis.

There are calls for government action to mandate indoor air quality standards and improve "terrible" ventilation in Australian schools that can hamper student learning.

The LNP had vowed to scrap the service arranged by the previous state government, but now says it will go ahead as a contract has already been signed.

Charlie, like so many others, had so much life left to live but sadly that was not to be. The memory of him, symbolised by shoes and his story, will be just one of many taken to Canberra to "raise awareness of the horrific effects and unimproved life expectancy from brain tumours".

The long-awaited drug summit starts today, with the NSW government signalling it is open to a change of direction in drug policy. However, legalisation of cannabis in the state has already been ruled out.

Mark Butler says the leaders who oversaw Australia's COVID-19 pandemic response don't need to say sorry to rebuild public trust.

Monitoring disease outbreaks, alerting the public and collaborating with state and federal governments are all duties the new CDC will take up. 

After years of campaigning, a free pill-testing service was supposed to be at Schoolies in the Gold Coast this year. Doctors and researchers are fighting the newly elected Queensland government to keep it that way.

Moments after being sworn into office, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has assured reporters he is hard at work recalibrating the "machinery of government" as his deputy unveiled a four-page "bible" that will keep the LNP accountable.

Preliminary results of a global survey show Australia has some of the highest rates of work addiction. Managers, people with a demanding job and those with family members addicted to work are at the highest risk of developing a work addiction.

Not-for-profit fund HCF has broken rank from the other big private health insurers and agreed to pay the state government its full bed rate when its members are given single rooms in public hospitals.

New polling commissioned by Q+A reveals Australians want a massive expansion to Medicare, as alarming volumes of people avoid treatment due to the costs.

Two Coalition MPs are breaking a longstanding bipartisan approach in tobacco policy, calling on the federal government to lower the tax on cigarettes, which critics argue is driving prices too high and fuelling a lucrative and dangerous black market.

Leaked documents have revealed the NT government tried to silence doctors speaking out against its tough new crime and alcohol polices at a national medicine conference being held in Darwin. It follows the health minister pulling out from speaking at the event.

New South Wales will unveil long-awaited changes today in a bid to penalise tobacconists selling illegal cigarettes and crack down on the growing black market. 

A report reveals people living in regional Victoria are almost twice as likely to seek abortions after 12 weeks' gestation than those living in metropolitan areas.

Year 11 students at a Ballarat school have received a meningococcal vaccine that can cost up to $400 thanks to the work of a shattered mum whose daughter died in 2017.