Shadow health minister Libby Mettam has slammed the report’s results as “shameful” after WA’s wait times were exposed as slower than any other State.
Brooke Rolfe
WA doctors are leaving the public hospital workforce in droves — more than anywhere else in the country — as emergency department wait times blow out and people forego seeing medical professionals due to cost.
Hannah Cross
As the Great Southern’s population continues to grow and pressure on the public health system mounts, a specialist clinic has emerged to save oft-forgotten regional patients from falling through the cracks.
Melissa Sheil
A York Street business that has been closed for more than half a decade has been declared unfit for human habitation.
Four cases of meningococcal disease have been reported to WA health authorities.
Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has ordered a review of all applications in a national medical research grant program after an open letter from WA researchers raised concerns over potential anti-WA bias.
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Max Corstorphan
The Federal and State governments have struck a landmark deal on hospital funding and the NDIS that will lead to an extra $25 billion in Commonwealth money flowing into health systems.
Katina Curtis
The price tag has seen a major spike in the past two years alone.
The first of three health hubs designed in part to help WA seniors stay out of the hospital system has started seeing patients ahead of its official opening in the coming months.
Oliver Lane
A first-of-its-kind support service for junior doctors has improved workforce shortages at one of the State’s biggest hospital service providers.
Claire Sadler
The Central Great Southern Early Years Partnership Dental Health Project has won a State award for its work in health and wellbeing.
Amy Towers
Leading WA medical researchers have pressed the panic button on a “catastrophic” rate of grants being rejected by the Federal Government’s primary funding body.
John Flint
A Bunnings store, pharmacy and golf club were also listed as exposure sites.
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Caitlin Vinci
Medical students from Perth universities started their placements at Albany Health Campus this week, marking the 21st cohort of students from the Rural Clinical School of WA beginning their careers in Albany.
Respiratory Care WA are bringing their specialist children’s respiratory care pop-up clinic to Albany for the first time this week, with dozens of families expected to take advantage of it.
Jacki Elezovich
Long-term exposure to air pollution could increase a person’s risk of developing motor neurone disease and accelerate its progression, according to new research.
RAC Roadside Assistance Patrols were called to 569 lock-in incidents across 2025, including 263 involving children and 306 involving pets — a 27 per cent increase on the previous year.
Visitors, patients and staff at the Great Southern’s largest hospital will no longer be forced to park on the verge now that the $2 million expansion of the facility’s carpark has been completed.
A novel nerve implant treatment will be tested on WA sleep apnoea patients in a new University of WA-run trial.
Angela Pownall
Less than half of the Cook Government’s $50 million blitz to fix crumbling WA hospitals has been spent, months after the urgent action was unveiled.
Charlton Hart
Whether it was blissfully, or deliberately, ignorant of disrepair in some of Perth’s hospitals, the government has now been forced into action.
Jessica Page
Albany senior Aboriginal health worker Glenda Williams hit a major professional milestone this year, working 50 years with WA Country Health Service.
