Cross-training staff, incorporating more independent providers, and expanding training in rural areas are solutions proposed ...

This week, AMA President Dr Danielle McMullen told the media that Healthscope's announcement that it would close maternity wards in hospitals in Darwin and Hobart later this year had cast a shadow ...

Private equity’s aim is clear — to pursue short-term profits at the expense of their target, whether that’s children’s interests, or in the case of hospitals, patient’s lives.

The private hospital sector and the health insurance industry are at loggerheads over the crisis in maternity wards after the Hobart Private Hospital announced it would be closing its service.