Rachel Rasker
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 26
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Brisbane Times
- Top 100K sites
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Healthcare workers champion green alternative to multibillion-dollar industry (opens the original)
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Healthcare workers are demanding answers after NSW’s patient safety agency banned hospitals from using eco-friendly medical supplies in favour of single-use products that end up in landfill and cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year. Clinicians have accused the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) of siding with a multibillion-dollar manufacturer of disposable medical devices that would lose money if the sustainable products were widely adopted. The stoush revolves around remanufacture
No warning, 12-year-old guidelines and a long shift: The litany of problems before Joe Massa’s death (opens the original)
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The registered nurse who triaged a two-year-old who died at the Northern Beaches Hospital has told a coronial inquest she had no alert about his abnormal heartbeat, was working with 12-year-old guidelines and was finishing a long shift during which she had been assaulted. NSW State Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan is examining the litany of problems at Northern Beaches Hospital that led to Joe Massa going from playing peek-a-boo to entering cardiac arrest within a day. The toddler’s death shocked Sydne
Australia news LIVE: AI chief rejects calls for regulation, US confirms it has weapons in space, MPs concerned about rate rises (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome to our coverage of national news for Wednesday, September 16. Here’s what is making headlines today. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption continues today, with lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood to return to the witness box for further questioning. You’ll be able to follow-along on our Operation Rosny blog once the day kicks off, or you can catch up on Bevan Shields’ or Kate McClymont’s analysis of yesterday’s proceedings.
When Lachlan fractured his elbow, he dreaded a hospital trip. This is how he managed to avoid it (opens the original)
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The Sydney researchers behind a world-first study into virtual fracture care say the innovative service could ease pressure on increasingly strained hospitals and revolutionise care for one of Australia’s most common injuries – the broken bone. Orthopaedic clinics have the highest attendance of any outpatient service in Australia, while fractures remain the most common type of injury recorded in emergency department presentations, with almost 407,000 cases nationwide in 2024-25 alone. Yet when L
‘Trust your gut’: Parents’ plea after toddler’s sepsis death (opens the original)
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The death of a two-year-old girl in a regional NSW hospital was “wholly preventable” and was caused by multiple failings in her care, an inquest has found. Deputy State Coroner Joan Baptie found Pippa Mae White died of sepsis following delayed diagnosis and treatment at Cowra and Orange hospitals in 2022. In findings delivered on Tuesday, Baptie outlined multiple instances of inadequate clinician assessments, missed opportunities to identify the child’s condition had deteriorated, and failures t
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