Cate Swannell

From a deficit of $3.6m in 2022-23 to $52m in 2023-24 – that's the amount of trouble Albury Wodonga Health is in.

Hint: not as much as seven others. But he's not starving any time soon. And they're all earning more than they did last year.

The government wanted caps on gardening and cleaning for senior Australians with home-care packages. But they also want the bill passed by the end of next week.

In step one of implementing HTA review recommendations, the health minister has appointed Professor Andrew Wilson to head an IAG.

By the end of the year, if the bill passes, pathology and imaging companies will be compelled to upload results to MHR or risk civil penalties.

Professor Sharon Lewin's latest reappointment will take her to the end of 2029 as boss of the wash at the institute.

Another $14.5m is being thrown at higher education providers to persuade them to increase the number of postgrad psychology places.

Amendments added before its passage through the upper house mean there is one more task to complete before the job is done.

The operator's split with Bupa and the AHSA means chaos for patients already booked in for surgery. And the PHA has urged doctors to boycott Healthscope facilities.

The details of how and when the Act will be implemented in an environment of ongoing digital health projects, like the HIE, remain mysterious.