Home Care Crucial To Protect Patients

NSW must vastly improve out-of-hospital care or patients will suffer in a system already under "severe strain", the NSW Auditor-General has said.

Tommy Tycho In Intensive Care

THE musician and conductor Tommy Tycho is paralysed and in intensive care at St Vincent's Hospital after suffering a stroke.

'blackmailing' Disabled

I recently attended a meeting at NSW Parliament called by Opposition spokesman for The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, Andrew Constance.

Caresouth Fosters Hope

SOUTH Coast charity CareSouth kicked off Foster Care Week yesterday by joining the Spring into Corrimal festivities.

Child-care Scare

NON-profit child-care centres fear they will have to increase fees or cut costs and staff if Newcastle City Council moves to increase building rents from $1 to $9500 a year.

New Chaplain Named

THE Reverend Dr Julia Perry was commissioned as the new chaplain at aged care service provider Anglican Care yesterday.

Doctors Attack Midwives Proposal

DOCTORS have attacked Federal Government plans to give midwives the same responsibilities as doctors in natal care with the Australian Medical Association saying it could threaten the lives of mothers and their babies.

Director Jumps Off Child-care Board

STRUGGLING child-care company ABC Learning has lost one of its high-profile new directors before it could formalise the appointment.