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Rising Complaints on Health-Care Quality: Ontario Patient Ombudsman

Ontario’s patient ombudsman says he has seen a rising number of complaints about poor quality of care in the health-care system and an increase in use of force by hospital security. The findings come in the patient ombudsman’s annual report released today. There were more than 3,300 complaints in the 2021-22 year, with most concentrated…


Australian Health Ministers Meeting to Tackle Widespread Hospital Bed Block

Federal, state, and territory health ministers will meet on Friday to discuss options to tackle the nationwide issue of bed block, which occurs when patients in emergency departments (EDs) cannot be moved to hospital beds because they are occupied. The ministers will travel to Canberra to address the problem by looking at ways patients who…


Australian Opposition Promises to Partner with South Australia to Tackle Ambulance Ramping

The Australian Labor Party has promised to partner with the South Australian Labor government to expand Adelaide’s health capacity to tackle the city’s ambulance ramping crisis if elected in the upcoming May 21 federal election. Under the partnership, a $400 million (US$283 million) expansion of Flinders Medical Centre, with 160 new beds for the south…