The number of Australians who delayed or avoided seeing their doctor because they couldn't afford it soared by almost 50 per cent in the last year.

The annual Report on Government Services shows Australians are spending longer on average in emergency departments when they visit

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has called for a new accord of “collaborative federalism” to drive shared policy responses to unsustainable pressures on Australia’s public hospitals.

Pressure is growing on Australian governments to revise COVID-19 management strategies, reports Croakey’s managing editor, Alison Barrett.

A survey by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine has found on average, one in four specialist trainee roles are unfilled for the clinical year ahead.

Emergency doctors across the country are urging people to plan ahead for healthcare this silly season and warning patients could experience longer waits than usual when attending emergency departments.

More than 1.5 million people are presenting to NSW emergency departments each year with non-urgent problems sparking renewed demands from state governments for better and cheaper access to GPs.

Nurses and doctors are urging people to stock up on medication and avoid dangerous activities these holidays lest they face long waits for services under “extreme” pressure.

More than one in three of the most critically ill or injured patients had to wait more than 10 minutes for an ambulance in NSW, while one in 10 waited almost 24 hours in emergency departments to be admitted to a ward.

Victoria’s under-siege healthcare system has “broken” staff, prompting calls for the state government to offer more than “lip service” to address the issue.

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital reported waiting times of up to 12 hours for non-urgent ED patients

It’s perhaps an unsurprising finding but Canberra’s emergency departments are under pressure, as are those all around the country.

There were a record number of ED presentations across Australia in 2020⁠–⁠21, according to a new report from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM).

Patients are facing dangerously long waits of almost three hours above what is recommended before being admitted through WA hospital emergency departments (ED), a damning report has revealed.

Data from the Victorian Agency for Health Information, shows that from July to September this year, 3676 people had their emergency department stays stretch for more than 24 hours, a more than tenfold increase in a year.

The Albanese government’s decision to allow a 50-50 Covid-related health funding deal with the states to expire will have a “devastating” impact on hospitals, Australia’s peak medical bodies say.

Dr Clare Skinner knew it was time for a career change when she found herself stuck on the sidelines. Now, she’s the president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, an emergency care clinician, and a voice for patients and medical professionals everywhere.

“Basically third world” is how one emergency doctor has described the state of Western Sydney Hospital as the crisis in the health system rages on.

The 88-year-old woman had been in the western Sydney hospital emergency room for six hours. She was in kidney failure. Accompanied by her daughter, she was lying across three chairs in the waiting room when emergency medicine doctor James Tadros first attended her. But there was little he could do.

Patients are "dying unnecessarily" while waiting in hospital emergency departments in what one doctor has called "third world" conditions, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has heard.