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IHMS

July 2021

  • Signage along the perimeter fence of the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation complex

    Refugee hunger strike at Melbourne detention centre ends after 17 days with detainees in hospital

    Group of mostly Iranian detainees are asking to be released into the community while awaiting resettlement

February 2017

  • Detainees walk around inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea.

    Immigration healthcare provider failed to run police checks on staff on Manus

    Damning audit finds healthcare provider at Australia’s offshore detention centre deployed four staff with outstanding checks and lost a working-with-children check

February 2016

  • Refugee activists protest outside the Lady Cilento hospital

    Moving Baby Asha: both sides claim victory but there is no solution here

  • Supporters cover their mouths during a protest by doctors and allied health professionals in Sydney to oppose the secrecy provisions of the Border Force Act, in July 2015.

    Prolonged detention is 'state-sanctioned child abuse', says head of doctors' group

January 2016

  • Asylum seekers during a hunger strike at the Manus Island detention centre

    Healthcare in detention
    Australia's offshore detention damages asylum seekers because it's supposed to

    Healthcare on Nauru and Manus comes a distant third to deterrence and profit, experts argue, which puts doctors asked to work there in an impossible position
  • Refugee and asylum seeker children on Nauru

    Healthcare in detention
    Immigration detainees four times more likely to suffer severe mental distress

    Data obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information shows 14.9% of those held in onshore detention were in severe mental distress
  • Child asylum seekers on Nauru

    Healthcare in detention
    Child detainee mental trauma will last, immigration healthcare provider warns

    Exclusive: International Health and Medical Services says government services are inadequate and children’s mental health deteriorates the longer they’re held

November 2015

  • Nauru detention centre

    Doctors plead for pregnant refugee to be sent from Nauru to Australia for birth

    Authorities on Nauru have refused requests for a 40-week pregnant refugee with health complications, to be transferred to Australia for specialist care

October 2015

  • Scott Morrison

    Scott Morrison voiced opposition to late-term abortion in 2014 asylum case

  • An audit will examine the effectiveness of the immigration department’s administration of services in onshore detention centres.

    Healthcare in detention
    National audit office to investigate asylum seeker healthcare in detention

September 2015

  • Manus Island hunger strike

    Extended detention worsening depression on Nauru and Manus Island

    Exclusive: IHMS report reveals suicide attempts and hunger strikes common and children in offshore detention vulnerable to mental health episodes

22 July 2015

  • First Dog on the Moon

    Trouble providing healthcare to asylum seekers? Get the excuse bag!

    First Dog on the Moon
  • Bags belonging to asylum seekers being processed on Christmas Island before their transfer to Papua New Guinea in 2013.

    Healthcare in detention
    Immigration department sought private medical records 'for political reasons'

  • A man looks through a filing cabinet.

    Healthcare in detention
    Immigration records so poorly kept that IHMS could not locate asylum seekers

  • A detention centre in Nauru.

    Healthcare in detention
    IHMS revelations bolster the legal and political case against the detention of asylum seekers

  • Healthcare in detention
    Peter Dutton warns of consequences if immigration contractors don't perform

  • Healthcare in detention
    Healthcare in detention: how the government and IHMS responded

21 July 2015

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    Healthcare in detention
    IHMS healthcare in detention investigation: the essentials explained – video

    Paul Farrell explains the essentials of Guardian Australia’s exclusive investigation into International Health and Medical Services (IHMS), which is receiving $1.6bn from the government to provide healthcare to asylum seekers in detention
  • International Health and Medical Services considered not telling the immigration department that new requirements for the vaccination of asylum seekers were less onerous than the previous ones.

    Healthcare in detention
    IHMS's bid to change treatment target – 'present as though we are cooperative'

    IHMS considered misleading Australia’s immigration department about asylum seeker vaccinations to secure more lenient contractual obligations
  • Internal documents show International Health and Medical Services put four staff to work with detained asylum seekers without the required background checks.

    Healthcare in detention
    IHMS deployed staff in detention centres without police checks

    Leaked reports from healthcare firm appear to show the company misled Australia’s immigration department about background check compliance
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