Healthscope has entered into short term forbearance arrangements with the requisite majority of its senior lenders. The arrangements are in place until May.

Healthscope and the Australian Health Service Alliance (AHSA) have reached an in principle agreement ensuring AHSA members will continue to be covered at Healthscope’s hospitals.

We’d like to start by expressing our deepest sympathy to the Massa family for the loss of their son Joe. We also express this on behalf of the doctors, nurses, clinicians and staff from the Northern Beaches Hospital (NBH)

Healthscope today announced it intends to stop offering maternity services at Hobart Private Hospital from 20 August 2025 due to ongoing workforce challenges.

Healthscope today announced it intends to cease offering maternity services at Darwin Private Hospital from 17 April 2025.

Healthscope and Bupa are pleased to announce they have reached a two-year in-principle agreement that recognises the sustainability challenges facing private hospitals while keeping hospital care affordable.

Following Bupa and the Australian Health Services Alliance (AHSA)’s refusal to acknowledge the viability crisis impacting private hospitals by addressing Healthscope’s funding concerns, Healthscope has today advised that it has no choice but to terminate its contracts with these funds.

Members of Bupa and the Australian Health Service Alliance (AHSA) will be charged an out-of-pocket fee at Healthscope hospitals from 26th November 2024, due to these insurers’ failure to sustainably cover the cost of patient care. Healthscope wanted to avoid this outcome, however funding from Bupa and the AHSA is not sustainably covering the cost of hospital treatments. The fee will only apply to Bupa and The AHSA members funds and go towards covering a patient’s high-quality care.

Healthscope, Australia’s second largest private hospital group, has initiated a campaign to educate the public on the big health insurers who aren’t properly funding hospitals for the care provided to hundreds of thousands of patients. Bupa and the Australian Health Service Alliance which includes insurers such as Australian Unity, are refusing to meet the rising costs of patient care, including for cancer treatment, maternity and mental health, while hoarding super profits and surpluses. Local hospitals may reduce services, or close all together, if these insurers don’t release more funding.

La Trobe Private Hospital has re-opened its doors, giving residents of Melbourne’s growing northern suburbs further vital access to healthcare and treatment.