The federal health minister has asked for an inquiry into clinical governance at Victoria’s largest private hospital.<\/p>\n
This comes after a Four Corners investigation into a top gynaecologist revealed women had tissue and organs removed for ‘severe’ endometriosis when pathology showed they had little or no trace of the disease.<\/p>\n
Melbourne’s Epworth Private Hospital is also commissioning its own external review, admitting the allegations about what took place there are distressing.<\/p>\n
A promised national database to help stop predators working with children is at least three years away from working.<\/p>\n
The national system to share criminal records across state borders in real time was a key government commitment in the wake of Australia’s childcare abuse scandals, but it won’t be up and running until 2029.<\/p>\n
Parents of child abuse victims are disgusted by the delay.<\/p>\n
And the Winter Olympics closing ceremony is underway in Italy and Cooper Woods and Dani Scott are the Australian flag bearers after winning a gold and silver.<\/p>\n
The competition’s now wrapped up and in the final events the USA was crowned men’s ice hockey champions for the first time since 1980.<\/p>\n
Earlier Australia’s Indra Brown finished fifth in the free ski half pipe final.<\/p>\n
It’s been Australia’s most successful Winter Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal health minister has asked for an inquiry into clinical governance at Victoria’s largest private hospital. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,13876,94082,22375,250423,14839,89791,137,647,31080],"class_list":{"0":"post-497557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-child-abuse","11":"tag-database","12":"tag-endometriosis","13":"tag-epworth-private-hospital","14":"tag-four-corners","15":"tag-gynaecologist","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-melbourne","18":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}