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  1. 8 hours ago

    Did you miss last night's ? Catch up on reporter Liz Hayes' investigation into Australia's rural health system on .

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  2. 9 hours ago

    "I couldn't pretend this was somebody else's Dad. I couldn't pretend this was somebody else's story." investigates her own father's death and Australia's broken rural healthcare system for . Watch this moment and more on :

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Ex-copper miner John Stingemore walked into Cobar hospital with an infected blister on his little toe. Before he knew it, what could have been a small problem became a two week ordeal: a nightmarish series of events that would end in amputation.

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  4. 14 hours ago

    "There's going to be some man-bashing right now!" Ian Leslie looks back on one of his most memorable stories, as remembers controversial sex educator and pioneering feminist Shere Hite who died last week aged 77. Watch:

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  5. 17 hours ago

    As part of a year-long investigation into Australia's rural health system, uncovered harrowing stories from those who had suffered within regional hospitals and heard from healthcare professionals who felt powerless to raise the alarm.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    "On the night Dad suffered a catastrophic stroke, clinical notes revealed that he'd not received his prescribed and vital anti-stroke medication for eight days. It was hard to believe — how could such a basic medical error occur?"

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  7. Sep 13

    Did you miss any of tonight's ? Catch up on reporter Liz Hayes' investigation into Australia's rural health system on .

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  8. Sep 13

    Doctors and nurses attempting to speak out about the poor conditions and bad practises at regional and rural hospitals have told they are being silenced by a "climate of fear" and have had their jobs threatened if they raise their concerns.

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  9. Sep 13

    For Liz Hayes and Jamelle Wells, losing their fathers has been devastating. But they will keep asking questions, for their families and every other family living in rural Australia.

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  10. Sep 13

    Reporter met with NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard to put to him the stories of those working at the coalface of the rural health system.

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  11. Sep 13

    Ryan Park is NSW’s Shadow Minister for Health. He wants all sides of politics to join forces to once and for all to fix rural healthcare.

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  12. Sep 13

    Ex-copper miner John Stingemore walked into Cobar hospital with an infected blister on his little toe. So began a nightmarish series of events that would end in amputation.

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  13. Sep 13

    Manning Valley resident and author Di Morrissey runs a fiercely independent local newspaper in that has become a magnet for hospital whistleblowers, patients and their relatives. They write to her because it seems no-one else will pay attention to their stories.

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  14. Sep 13

    The most confronting allegation from the Manning Base Hospital involved a young quadriplegic patient who was allegedly physically assaulted and threatened by a hospital security worker.

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  15. Sep 13

    Speaking carefully, even from the relative security of his recent retirement, long-time specialist at Manning Base Hospital Dr Philip Walkcom confirmed to the climate of fear in the local health system.

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  16. Sep 13

    Jamelle Wells was charged an outrageous cost to obtain her dad’s medical records. But what she received was missing page, false statements and in a serious breach of patient confidentiality, another patient’s records mixed in with her father’s.

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  17. Sep 13

    The Mayo Private Hospital in Taree is a 79-bed hospital with just one doctor. On the night of Liz Hayes’ father’s catastrophic stroke, that single doctor was not at the hospital but on call.

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  18. Sep 13

    Despite still being very ill, Dubbo Hospital decided 85-year-old Allan Wells had to be sent back to Cobar, but after a week in Cobar Hospital he was told he had to be sent to a nursing home. Five days later at that nursing home, he passed away.

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  19. Sep 13

    Disturbingly, Jamelle Wells’ father was refused food and drink for three days because she was told there was no-one available to conduct a ‘sip test’ to ensure her father could swallow.

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  20. Sep 13

    Journalist Jamelle Wells recently suffered the anguish of losing her 85-year-old father Allan. Jamelle tells that her father looked up from his hospital bed and told her “Love, I've got a feeling they've done the wrong thing by me.”

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