Red Cross to process Tas blood interstate
Tasmanian blood donations will soon be processed in Victoria.
View ArticleLiberals 'concerned' about health charts
The Tasmanian Liberals have labelled the latest health progress chart a concerning and deliberately delayed report card of the state's health system.
View ArticleNew pacemaker means MRIs possible
A new pacemaker that makes it safe for heart disease patients to have a vital diagnostic test they previously could not has been implanted in the first Tasmanian.
View ArticleAlarm over waiting list deaths
The Tasmanian Opposition has described as appalling new figures showing more than 120 people died over a 12-month period while waiting for elective surgery.
View ArticleGap left in pre-natal testing
North-west Tasmania has been without a vital pre-natal ultrasound service since July, after six medical staff failed their accreditation test.
View ArticleOrgan donors urged to sign up
Tasmanians who want to donate their organs are being urged to make it official.
View ArticleElective surgery wait continues
A new report shows Tasmanians are waiting longer for elective surgery than most other states.
View ArticleTasmanians top organ donors
Tasmanians are donating their organs at the highest rate in the country.
View ArticleHomeless turned away from shelters
New figures reveal the number of homeless adults and unaccompanied children turned away from emergency accommodation in Tasmania remains high.
View ArticleLibs slam spinal surgery wait
The Opposition has condemned Tasmania's elective surgery waiting lists, after it was revealed a woman has been waiting more than a year for spinal surgery.
View ArticleDoctor In The House
Dr Michael Buist is an intensive care specialist with a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital curtain who's now emerged as a world leader in the push to improve patient care.
View ArticleTasmania misses waiting list targets
Tasmanians continue to spend too long on elective surgery waiting lists, but the state will receive Commonwealth reward payments for meeting surgery targets.
View ArticleFears elective surgery procedures to be halved
The Nursing Federation fears the State Government will cut the number of elective surgery procedures by half in an effort to save money and ease the demand for hospital beds. The union says the...
View ArticleSurgery wait list grows at RHH
There has been an increase in surgery waiting list times at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Mersey Community Hospital.
View ArticleElective surgery falls under budget knife
Elective surgery will be cut and up to 150 administrative jobs will go as the State Government tries to meet $100 million in budget savings. The Health Minister says $21.6 million will be slashed from...
View ArticleShock, anger at surgery cuts
Health unions have reacted with shock, with nurses said to be in tears after the State Government announced it is to slash funding for elective surgery. The Government plans to cut $21.6 million worth...
View ArticleFlu vaccine push
The Director of Public health is urging Tasmanians to check if they can get a free flu vaccination
View ArticleDonor found for baby with rare disease
A bone marrow donor has been found for a Launceston baby suffering from a rare genetic brain disorder.
View ArticleTasmanian circumcision laws under the knife
Tasmania's peak law reform body wants a ban on non-therapeutic circumcisions of boys.
View ArticleBid to stop male circumcision
Tasmania's Law Reform Institute is pushing for a ban on male circumcision.
View ArticleMore patients waiting longer for surgery
A national report shows Tasmania continues to have the highest percentage of patients waiting more than a year for elective surgery.
View ArticleRecord set in organ donation
Tasmania's organ donation rate is now double the national average.
View ArticleApp launched to help survive snake bites
A Tasmanian snake rescue group has launched a smartphone application designed to help treat animal bites.
View ArticleAn easeful legislative death likely in Tasmania
Tasmania is the latest state to debate euthanasia laws. By Dr Philip Nitschke's count it is the 17th attempt for an Australian legislature to pass 'dying with dignity' type laws; attempts that has...
View ArticleMore Tasmanians waiting more than a year for elective surgery: report
A new report shows four times as many Tasmanians are waiting over a year for elective surgery. A Productivity Commission report shows that in 2011-12, 11.5 per cent of Tasmanian patients waited more...
View ArticleThe coward punch in Tasmania
The one punch assault or more commonly referred to as the coward punch, in recent months has been making headlines across Australia. So what do Tasmanians know about the coward punch?
View ArticleHealth report shows big difference in surgery costs
Big discrepancies in the costs of medical procedures in Tasmanian hospitals have been highlighted in a report.
View ArticleFormer AFL great takes to a postie bike
The buzzing sound of a postie bike hammering up and down the footpath is familiar to people right across Australia, but that sound has been amplified recently with a postie bike charity ride consisting...
View ArticleTwo patients affected by contaminated anaesthetic, hospital postpones...
The Launceston General Hospital has had to postpone some elective surgery after being caught up in a national drug recall. Two patients became sick last month after being given a potentially...
View ArticleHobart mates walk to west coast for rare disorder
Two mates from Hobart are walking to Queenstown on the west coast to raise money and awareness for four-year-old Natalie Tregoning, who's living with Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS).
View ArticleOrgan donation marathon
A Tasmanian man is raising awareness of organ donation through his passion for running marathons all around the world.
View ArticleTas elective surgery waiting lists still longest in the country
Tasmania's Health Minister insists his overhaul of the system will result in an improvement in elective surgery wait times, which remain the worst in Australia.
View ArticleYoung Hobart mum still traumatised after unexpected and frightening stroke...
After feeling a pain in her left eye while lying in bed, Hobart resident Reece Davies did not know what was wrong, but soon after, realised she was having a stroke.
View ArticleLaunceston General Hospital radiologist admits failure to diagnose...
A radiologist at the Launceston General Hospital admits he failed to diagnose a potentially fatal heart condition in a patient, who died hours after she was discharged.
View ArticleLaunceston family wants medicinal cannabis recognised as legitimate treatment
For the last 12 months Launceston couple Lyn Cleaver and Malcolm Amundsen have been growing cannabis for their son's medicinal use and even though it is illegal, they feel it is the right thing to do.
View ArticleLaunceston General Hospital at risk of losing teaching accreditation over...
Launceston General Hospital is in danger of losing its teaching accreditation because of a lack of radiologists.
View ArticleSmithton paramedic and SES volunteer has had life of fast decisions
There are not too many people who can walk around their hometown, pointing out people they helped keep alive 81-year-old Ian Snow Neilson is one of those people.
View ArticleTasmanian doctors blame surgery delays for high use of morphine-based...
Tasmanians are being prescribed morphine-based medications more than any other state and it directly relates to long wait lists for elective surgery, says the peak body representing family doctors.
View ArticleMajor disparities in surgery rates across Australia, report says
National data reveals huge differences in the types of surgical procedures performed, depending on where patients live, with the report's authors suggesting remoteness, socioeconomic disadvantage and...
View ArticleTasmanian man sues doctor, hospital for 'medical negligence' after leg...
Wayne Ball says he needed to have his leg amputated after a botched knee replacement by a specialist left him with a severe infection and other complications.
View ArticleRobotic assistance at the cutting edge of knee replacement surgery
New robotic technology could make knee replacements more successful and longer-lasting, according to a Tasmanian orthopaedic surgeon who is an early adopter of the technology.
View ArticleClinical failures, delays contributed to woman's death after pain ordeal,...
The death of a woman from sepsis and multiple organ failure was in part due to a series of clinical failures and delays at two hospitals, a Tasmanian coroner finds, adding the case should be reviewed...
View ArticleNo timeframe for abortion provider to do terminations in Tasmania, as women...
Tasmania's Health Minister refuses to guarantee a Melbourne-based, low-cost abortion provider that reached a government agreement last year will ever perform terminations in Tasmania.
View ArticlePeople dying waiting for obesity surgery, doctors say, amid calls for greater...
For years Calum Sanderson struggled to leave the house as he battled morbid obesity that felt "unbeatable", but he was knocked back for lap-band surgery because he "was deemed not sick enough".
View ArticleElective surgery wait lists blowing out, AMA warns, leaving Tasmanian...
Athol Nossiter has been experiencing bleeding from his bowel for two years he's still on the public wait list for a colonoscopy and says it's "always on you mind".
View ArticleRural patients left for hours with undiagnosed stroke, promoting calls for...
The Stroke Foundation says patients with brain clots and haemorrhages are being left for hours untreated in rural hospitals which do not have the equipment or expertise to support them.
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