Urgent surgeries delayed as 3000 hospital emails unread
Health authorities have been left scrambling to schedule urgent surgeries after a hospital inbox was found to contain thousands of unread emails.
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The ACT Government has said that the construction of the new South Tuggeranong Health Centre in Conder has been completed, with the facility expected to open to patients by the end of the year.
More older Australians are arriving in emergency rooms, placing strain on hospitals and increasing the caseload beyond "bread and butter" work.
A coalition of ACT politicians and community advocates has accused the federal Labor government of breaking its election promise to deliver more respite beds in Canberra.
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Science storyteller Chloe Lim takes STEM honour
Canberra science storyteller Dr Chloe Lim has won the STEM Teachers Award at the 2026 Women of Colour in STEM Awards in Melbourne.
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Why Kate makes the hardest conversations count
Nurse Practitioner of the Year Kate Reed-Cox is changing how people approach end-of-life care. She talks to DHWANI PATHAK.
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Synthetic bee silk set to take sting out of wounds
Synthetic dressings based on honeybee silk could be programmed to detect and combat infections in wounds and improve the healing process, researchers hope.
Revelations staff at a major Melbourne hospital might have been exposed to toxic chemicals have left health workers desperately waiting for answers, a union claims.
Families are still largely in the dark about what will happen when their kids are moved off the NDIS onto state supports as a transition period gets underway.
More than 70 per cent of Canberra general practices have signed up to a system giving them access to patients’ ACT public health records with their consent.
Wait times for pulmonary rehabilitation in Canberra are expected to fall from as long as two years to about two months under an expansion of services across the ACT.
Canberra Liberals Leader Mark Parton will move a motion in the Legislative Assembly today calling for continued funding of non-clinical, home-based palliative care support after funding changes affecting Community Options.
Canberra palliative care specialist Kate Reed-Cox has been named the 2026 Australian nurse practitioner of the year.
Canberrans are spending an average $1640.08 a year keeping fit, the highest of any Australian capital, according to new research that ranks Canberra the country's least fitness-friendly city.
Motor neuron disease is impacting people in some parts of western NSW at rates of up to seven times higher than the global average.
Pregnant women and new parents using Canberra's public maternity services will have access to more consistent care under a new 12-month trial supporting endorsed midwives.
States will lobby for more federal funding to free up desperately needed hospital beds in their health systems as ministers meet for talks.
The federal government has expanded the range of cancers a drug will be subsidised to treat as part of its discounted medicines scheme.
Takeaway coffee drinkers are getting more than they bargained for with their caffeine, new research shows.
