Monash Health

Grieving mum asks doctors to 'truly listen' to parents
Doctors must trust concerned parents when they bring sick children in for help, a mother says after a coronial finding on her three-year-old daughter's death.
AAP
4 min read
Man Arrested For Scaling RMIT Building In Protest Of ‘The Corruption In The Medical System’
A Melbourne father has taken his grievances with the medical system to new heights – literally.
Pedestrian.tv
4 min read
Amrita Lanka’s parents face ‘life sentence of misery’ after daughter’s death at Melbourne hospital, inquest hears
Eight-year-old’s parents describe grief of losing ‘smart, caring’ girl as coroner examines whether hospital’s care was reasonable
The Guardian - AU
4 min read
Why are some Victorian hospitals saying they’re freezing recruitment and looking for ways to cut costs?
Staff in several hospitals have been told of reduced spending, but Jacinta Allan says budgets aren’t finalised
The Guardian - AU
5 min read
Monash Health fined $160k over patient's death
Monash Health has been fined $160,000 in the Victorian County Court after it failed to ensure one of its mental health inpatients was not at risk of self-harm.
AAP
3 min read
Monash Health pleads guilty over patient's death
Monash Health admits it breached health and safety legislation before a mental health patient took her own life at Casey Hospital in Melbourne's southeast.
AAP
3 min read
Cyber breach impacts family violence, sex assault data
Data from 4000 people who used Monash Health's family violence and sexual assault support units across two decades has been caught in a data breach.
AAP
3 min read
Victoria’s largest public health service faces criminal charge over Indigenous woman’s hospital death
WorkSafe Victoria has charged Monash Health for allegedly exposing a patient to health and safety risks while in its care
The Guardian - AU
2 min read
Wasted opportunity as frozen eggs languish in storage
The vast majority of eggs frozen by prospective mothers go unused, causing headaches for IVF clinics and preventing potentially groundbreaking research.
AAP
3 min read
Influence, Ibac and violence in hospitals: the many problems uncovered by the investigation into a Victorian union contract
‘We don’t want politics. We want the political leadership to support solutions,’ doctor says, citing escalating violence against health workers
The Guardian - AU
7 min read