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• Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. Labor says doctors will earn more than $400,000 a year following the introduction of its $8 billion election promise to increase bulk-billing incentives – a 44 per cent pay rise since it won power three years ago.
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Healthscope caught the Minns government off guard last week when it offered to dissolve its joint ownership at the Northern Beaches Hospital, years before the agreement to operate the facility ended. The move made sense for the country’s second-biggest hospital operator, given the outcome of a number of investigations into the facility are imminent and the media storm around the hospital in Sydney’s north intensities. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
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Eli Lilly says it could pull tens of millions of dollars invested in Australian clinical trials unless the federal government dramatically cuts the time it takes to put new drugs onto the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Apr 14, 2025 – 10.10am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? EBR Systems, the heart device hopeful heavily backed by high-profile investors including Mark Carnegie, Bill Ferris and several major superannuation funds, has secured approval from authorities in the United States to begin selling its technology within months.
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The NSW government says it will not enter negotiations to buy back Healthscope’s troubled Northern Beaches Hospital until the private healthcare operator resolves uncertainty around its ownership. The comments by Treasurer Daniel Mookhey suggest efforts to return the major hospital, in Sydney’s north, to the government could be delayed until Healthscope’s owner, Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management, completes a months-long process to sell or recapitalise the business. Loading...
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Apr 10, 2025 – 1.48pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Healthscope, the nation’s second-largest private hospital operator, said it would be willing to hand the troubled Northern Beaches Hospital back to the NSW government.
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Apr 9, 2025 – 11.01am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? US president Donald Trump says he is preparing to announce a “major” tariff on pharmaceuticals in an expansion of his damaging trade war that would hit $1.6 billion in annual Australian exports.
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afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |John Kehoe
Updated Apr 7, 2025 – 2.40pm, first published at 10.20am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Health Minister Mark Butler has put private health insurers on notice that they will be forced to tip in up to $1 billion more every year to help struggling private hospitals remain open if Labor wins the federal election.
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afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Apr 6, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tensions are building between Healthscope and its landlord HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla, as the serial dealmaker seeks to position himself as the frontrunner in a possible bidding war for the country’s second-largest private hospital operator.
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afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith
Apr 6, 2025 – 5.26pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Weight-loss drug companies claim new research shows that Labor and the Coalition are under growing pressure to consider listing weight-loss drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to tackle the nation’s growing obesity crisis and improve workplace productivity.
