The coroner has recommended the Tasmanian ambulance service rewrite its policies around refusal of treatment after a 75-year-old woman twice refused to be taken to hospital and two days later died. Tasmania’s ambulance services visited Feryne Hunter twice in the two days before her death, but both times she refused to be taken to hospital....
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Sydney’s hospital system will come under increasing pressure until October. With the system already stretched thin, NSW Health is looking at a raft of different measures to increase staffing levels.
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Carers are expected to deliver emergency assistance in aged care homes when necessary, but some managers are asking them not to, instead demanding they wait for an RN to step in.
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