Health Policy

It is common for media advisors to provide reporters with background information in an effort to shape the way a story is reported, but the practice backfired spectacularly when the SA government shared an email from the wrong patient.

The number of GP home visits has declined by 85 per cent in Australia over the past three decades, which doctors say is driving vulnerable people into residential care and hospital prematurely. 

Experts say they are feeling "nervous" as Australia approached this year's flu season, with a new, fast-moving strain of influenza dubbed "Super-K" circulating as vaccine uptake dwindles.

South Australia's health minister apologises "unreservedly" for the deliberate leak of an email that the government said was from an Adelaide cancer patient who died in 2025, but turned out to be from a different person with the same name.

Peter Malinauskas says his government made an "unacceptable" error in releasing an email it claimed was from a terminal cancer patient who later died, but that turned out to be from a different man with the same name.

With just two weeks to go until the state election, Labor has steered away from ambitious promises after difficulty meeting its pledge to fix the ambulance ramping crisis last election — one of the few points where the opposition's barbs are piercing.

An Adelaide man spent some of his final moments stuck in an ambulance outside a major Adelaide public hospital, his partner says.

The way ADHD is diagnosed and managed is changing across the country. Here's the reason for the change and how it will work in each state and territory.

Tasmania needs more nurses, but lower wages and fewer opportunities for career growth remain barriers for enticing health workers to return to their home state.

The review comes after a fungal infection cluster at a transplant ward at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital linked to two deaths.

Medical experts fear a recently revealed condition on a Tasmanian election promise could kill a new hospital proposal, amid escalating concern about health facilities. 

Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

The Federal Court has dismissed the entire board of one of WA's largest Aboriginal medical services, due to factional and 'oppressive conduct'.

Australia's first Deafblind class in a mainstream school has been established after a mother spent two years advocating for her son.

An independent review finds Labor's urgent care clinics face workforce shortages and problems with after-hours services, with no evidence hospital waiting times have improved.

It was the key promise of the 2022 SA Labor campaign: fix the ramping crisis. But four years on, the state's health system continues to buckle under never ending pressure, according to those on the frontline.

A federal court judge has found that two board members factionally controlled a South West Indigenous Medical Service and unfairly expelled members to avoid scrutiny and maintain control. 

Australians are increasingly downgrading their health cover, with 360,000 people leaving gold policies since 2020. But some have been left out of pocket for surgeries they thought they were covered for.

After years of unsuccessful endometriosis treatments, Inez Goves underwent a hysterectomy thanks to an online fundraiser. But her symptoms returned, prompting more surgery and calls for greater support for the illness.

Kimberley resident David Lawford had to wait in Perth until someone in his hometown died before he could get access to dialysis on his return.