Cashed-up doctors are using generous tax breaks to buy artworks for their waiting-room walls thanks to a little-known loophole in the government's stimulus package, reports The Australian.   

Medical software developed by Darwin doctor Sam Heard has been adopted by Sweden for its national eHealth infrastructure, says NT News.   

Doctors and hospitals will not get paid if they make big mistakes such as operating on the wrong limb, under a plan being prepared by health insurers for consideration by the Federal Government, says The Age.   

Emergency department doctors are having difficulty with obese patients because they cannot find body parts, hear heartbeats or fit BP cuffs around their arms, says the Herald Sun.   

Mothers will be urged to ditch the baby bottle under a controversial and potentially divisive five-year government-backed plan to boost breast milk feeding rates, writes the Courier Mail.   

A review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs for dementia patients in Britain has concluded they are largely unnecessary and sometimes deadly, the ABC reports.   

Emergency departments are failing to meet national performance targets in every area but non-urgent treatment, according to latest Queensland Health figures in the Courier Mail.   

The only doctor at Coolah Hospital in rural NSW says he has been told that ambulances would be bypassing the hospital, taking emergency patients to other hospitals up to an hour and a half away due to a nursing shortage, The Australian reports.   

Lawyers are seeking to freeze the assets of a surgeon found guilty of sexual assault, after the victim launched a civil compensation suit against him, says the Illawarra Mercury.   

Police have raided the Melbourne offices of Dr Philip Nitschke's pro-euthanasia group Exit International over an alleged assisted suicide in June, says News.com.au.   

A new GP Super Clinic in Brisbane’s Southside will have 11 GPs based at the Annerley hub and a second hub at Meadowbrook in Logan, says the City South News.   

Australian doctors will be prevented from working in the UK under tough new immigration restrictions to be introduced from 2010, says WA Today.