Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from NSW Health

Hunter New England Health is caring for 86 people in hospital, with just one in intensive care.

Newcastle Herald

Here’s What To Do If All This Rain’s Got Your Sharehouse Mouldier Than A Block Of Blue Castello

Time to whip out my BFF white vinegar.

Pedestrian.tv

Newcastle and Hunter health district records highest COVID cases in NSW as hospitalisations rise

A Taree resident has died and hospitals in the Hunter health district were treating 74 people for COVID-19, three of whom were in intensive care, as hospitalisations further afield in NSW rose overnight even as cases fell.

Newcastle Herald

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Charts reveal NSW's accelerating COVID-19 infection rate and how state recorded 1m cases in 75 days

NSW took 731 days to officially reach 1 million COVID-19 cases. To get from there to 2 million, it took just 75. And unofficially, the state probably hit that milestone even sooner.

ABC News

The mothers accused of poisoning their kids

Two women are accused of poisoning their own children at the same hospital. They say it tore their lives apart.

ABC News

Regional Health Division announced by NSW government in wake of healthcare inquiry

The announcement of a new NSW government division that will focus on regional health services is welcomed by stakeholders, but some want immediate action to reduce spiralling locum doctor costs.

ABC News

NSW Health Minister tests positive

The 70-year-old has minor symptoms.

Newcastle Herald

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Long delays for elective surgery in NSW take their toll ahead of winter ‘disaster’

Medical association president says waiting lists will get worse with staff burnout and increased flu cases

The Guardian - AU

Hunter New England records highest new case numbers in state again today

There were more than 2,150 new COVID cases recorded in Hunter New England.

Newcastle Herald

Central Coast resident among state's most recent record of COVID-related deaths

NSW Health recorded the deaths of 13 people with COVID-19 Saturday, one of whom the state's health authority has confirmed was from the Central Coast.

Newcastle Herald

NSW adds 331 deaths to Covid toll after data review

Officials amend state’s total coronavirus fatalities after revision by registry births, deaths and marriages

The Guardian - AU

'Thank you doesn't keep patients safe': Nurses march for change in Newcastle

About a thousand nurses from across the Hunter and Central Coast came together to march through Newcastle to Foreshore Park as part of the state-wide strike action.

Newcastle Herald

Labor’s Katy Gallagher says ‘mean girls’ label ‘diminishes women’; 11 virus deaths – as it happened

This blog has now closed

The Guardian - AU

Veterans’ affairs minister threatened to quit over budget; Australia reports 30 Covid deaths – as it happened

Andrew Gee calls backlog of veteran’s compensation payments ‘a national disgrace’; WA teenager among 30 Covid deaths across the country. This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

Newcastle baby died from COVID-19: coroner

A coroner says COVID-19 caused the death of a two-month-old baby in Newcastle in December when the city was overwhelmed by a wave of Omicron infections.

The Guardian - AU

‘Previously well’ two-year-old child dies in Sydney hospital with Covid

NSW records 14,970 new cases and four deaths from the virus – taking state’s Covid death toll to 2,027

ABC News

NSW Health says two-year-old child has died from COVID-19 at Sydney hospital

Health authorities in NSW have confirmed a two-year-old child has died from COVID-19. NSW Health said the child had been well before contracting the virus.

AAP

Japanese encephalitis PCR tests available

Accurate tests are readily available to detect Japanese encephalitis, a specialist says, as NSW records its eighth case in the current virus outbreak.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Veterinary students denied free access to Japanese encephalitis vaccine

Veterinary students in NSW come into contact with animals during their training, many of whom could carry the Japanese encephalitis virus.

AAP

NSW COVID-19 case spike due to data glitch

NSW has reported 30,402 COVID-19 cases but NSW Health says it includes about 10,000 positive rapid antigen tests missed due to a glitch.

The Guardian - AU

Morrison plays down fresh Covid restrictions as experts say boosters best way to tackle subvariant

NSW health minister also ‘not at all keen’ to reintroduce masks and curbs on movement as reportedly recommended by officials

Pedestrian.tv

NSW Health Has Called For Indoor Masks & A Dancefloor Ban In Response To The New BA.2 Subvariant

In response, Hazzard told the Sydney Morning Herald “as Health Minister I am not at all keen to be heading back the path that has exhausted everybody with all the restrictions. All that would be a last resort from my perspective”.

AAP

Fourth Japanese encephalitis case in NSW

A fourth case of Japanese encephalitis has been confirmed by NSW Health, with residents urged to protect themselves from mosquito bites.

AAP

Paramedic left to run NSW town hospital

Leaving an emergency paramedic to run a hospital during a COVID-19 outbreak was not a "perfect" decision, the NSW Health Secretary has acknowledged.

AAP

NSW Health staff sent north to flood zone

Health Minister Brad Hazzard says there are growing reports of gastroenteritis in the flood ravaged communities on the NSW north coast.

1 … 14 15 16 17

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bureau of Meteorology

Sydney Morning Herald

Hunter New England Health

57 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.