Tag: barwon health
Investigate Barwon Health on harassment, says surgeon-professor Dewan
By NOEL MURPHY
BARWON Health should be investigated by State Government and College of Surgeons inquiries into allegations of institutionalised bullying and harassment in Victoria’s...
Barwon Health pushes water-only for kids but not its own
By NOEL MURPHY
BARWON Health has defended a new ‘water-only’ program to cut sweet drinks in schools despite selling sugary soft drinks within its own...
Barwon Health’s unkind cut for Third World humanitarian Paddy Dewan
By NOEL MURPHY
HE MIGHT have undertaken 3000 operations on sick children in Third World countries, teaching doctors along the way, but Barwon Health doesn’t...
Top surgeon loses job, slams Barwon Health
A ROYAL commission should be launched into the national health regulator and into hospital administration decisions damaging medical staff and care levels, according to...
Robot dispensing pills at Geelong Hospital
ROBOTICS and pills are unusual new bedfellows set to save Barwon Health $250,000 a year.
Geelong Hospital is the first Australian hospital to install an...
Foul food fury
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
The food at Barwon Health’s McKellar Centre is so bad that it's sometimes inedible and resembles excrement, according to recent rehabilitation...
Research key to prosperity
By NOEL MURPHY
SILK fibres in artificial eardrums, invisible materials, hydrogen fuel, stunning atom-thick graphene 100 times stronger than steel, self-changing carbon fibre technology, stem...
Brain booster for bipolar disorder
Providing the brain with an energy boost could be a new way to treat bipolar depression.
Deakin University’s IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, in partnership with...
Government ‘duds north’ over hospital
By NOEL MURPHY
LABOR MPs have savaged plans for a hospital at North Geelong after the state budget allocated $3.4 million to the project next...
Hot one for local cricketers
Independent photographer Ivan Kemp did the rounds on a hot Saturday January 11 to take these pictures of the East Belmont vs Grovedale and...
