Latest news: Canberra Hospital

The Canberra Hospital paediatric ward was filled with cheesy grins and excited giggles today! The Royal Canberra Show and Canberra FM delivered young hospital patients some show bags and brought a whole lot of laughter and smiles to their day.

The ACT’s hospital emergency department waiting times are some of the longest in the country, for the fifth year in a row.

All eight levels of the new Critical Services Building will be complete this year, and the façade and internal fit outs installed.

United States Marines from the U.S Embassy in Canberra gave back to the community last week by gifting toys and joy to children at Canberra Hospital.

What is going on when prisoners have four heavily armed police escorts and get priority at Canberra Hospital Emergency Department over normal patients.

An 18-year-old Bonner man will face the ACT Magistrates Court tomorrow charged with murder following an incident overnight at the Canberra Hospital.

Supertee hospital garments provide much needed comfort for sick kids, and Jason Sotiris wants to reach Canberran kids too. So, all funds from the “SweatIT 4 Supertee” fitness challenge on Thursday October 27 will go towards a Canberra Hospital delivery.

The Canberra Hospital and Calvary Public Hospital were nationally recognised for excellence in caring for and treating patients with stroke.

The paediatric emergency wing at the Canberra Hospital must operate at full capacity, the Canberra Liberals state.

On Thursday 10 November, any and all Canberrans whose lives have been touched by the much-loved Canberra Hospital Birth Centre are invited to a gala dinner celebrating its 30th year.

It has been a tough few years for everyone – and nobody knows this more than those involved in our health services. The Canberra Hospital Foundation’s annual Can Give Day (CGD), which this year falls on Friday 21 October, offers the broader community an opportunity to give back to those who continue to do so much for us.

A pedestrian has died in hospital in Canberra after a fatal crash on the Hume Highway near Goulburn NSW earlier this month.

The Canberra Liberals will today call on the ACT Government to immediately improve health care for children at the Canberra Hospital.

Medical transcriptionists at Canberra Hospital, the CPSU claims, will be replaced with a software voice to text program. 

The Canberra Liberals have called on the ACT Government to urgently establish an independent review of the Territory’s paediatric services following the deaths of several children in the past two years.

Could the deaths of children at Canberra Hospital have been prevented? The AMA says paediatric care has been inadequate for a decade.