Primary care providers in Tasmania are cutting services, including a mobile GP program and after-hours clinics, after the state government failed to extend funding. This is expected to increase strain on emergency departments.
Children and young people in England are waiting up to three days in A&E for specialist mental health beds, NHS figures reveal. The Royal College of Nursing calls it a "catastrophic system-wide failure" as waits of over 12 hours have tripled since 2019.
A Victorian emergency department nurse and her family face deportation before the end of the month due to her six-year-old son's developmental delay.
For anyone needing a break from binging The Pitt, you can always put in your own shifts as a hospital manager, surgeon, paramedic and of course as a demonic morgue assistantLike the rest of the western world, our household is currently binging medical drama The Pitt, revelling in its visceral depiction of life in a modern emergency department. So far the series has yet to inspire a video game tie-in (though there has been an amusing parody), but fans wishing to try their hand at tense medical (mal)practice, should not despair. Here are eight of the best hospital games spanning more than 40 years of gruesome interactive surgery. Squirt some hand sanitiser and come this way. Continue reading...
A groundbreaking Harvard study published in Science found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in emergency medicine triage, with OpenAI's o1 reasoning model achieving 67% diagnostic accuracy versus 50-55% for physicians. The AI identified exact or very close diagnoses in 76 patients at a Boston hospital, and significantly outperformed doctors in treatment planning (89% vs 34%). Researchers emphasize AI will not replace doctors but become part of a new triadic care model combining doctor, patient, and AI.
