The Latest Breaking News from Launceston General Hospital

The hospital supervisor of a notorious paedophile who worked in a children's ward has tearfully told an inquiry she was aware of him hugging young patients — but that it was "accepted by all staff" and in her opinion at the time something which could be addressed by "education".

In 2011, Kylee Pearn told the Launceston General Hospital that there was a child abuser working in the children's ward — she knew because he'd abused her years earlier. The paedophile, James Geoffrey Griffin, would continue working there for another eight years.

Two mental health treatment centres in Tasmania's north have closed due to COVID outbreaks — with a health union blasting what it says is a "lack of planning" and a parent fearing for those desperate for help.

As a young football player recovers from going into cardiac arrest on the field, sports clubs are urged to ensure they have access to life-saving defibrillators.

A ward at the Launceston General Hospital has been hit by a coronavirus outbreak, with the facility also facing a high level of emergency department demand.

Tasmania police are investigating an on-field fight that led to a player suffering a heart attack during a football game in Tasmania's north-west.

Tasmania's coroner blames mismanagement of a baby's birth at the Launceston General Hospital for his death from brain damage two weeks later.

The death of a two-week-old baby boy in Tasmania was the result of a severe brain injury that occurred during a "mismanaged" birth, a coroner has ruled.

A mother increasingly frantic over what was happening to her daughter at a Tasmanian hospital says she called a child safety service because she did not know who else to turn to.