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Healthcare in detention

A Guardian Australia investigation into International Health and Medical Services, the contracted provider of healthcare to asylum seekers Australia has detained on the mainland and offshore on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru.
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    Immigration department failed to properly oversee healthcare provider, reviews show

    Exclusive: Documents show IHMS, contracted for health services for asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus, failed to meet medical targets and included incorrect data in reports
  • Asylum seekers during a hunger strike at the Manus Island detention centre

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

  • Refugee and asylum seeker children on Nauru

    Immigration detainees four times more likely to suffer severe mental distress

  • Child asylum seekers on Nauru

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

    National audit office to investigate asylum seeker healthcare in detention

    Audit office will review relationship between IHMS and government and assess whether contracts support the ‘effective and efficient delivery of health services’
  • Bags belonging to asylum seekers being processed on Christmas Island before their transfer to Papua New Guinea in 2013.

    Immigration department sought private medical records 'for political reasons'

    Clinical directors at Australia’s immigration healthcare provider raised concerns about record sharing breaching privacy laws, an internal briefing shows
  • A man looks through a filing cabinet.

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

    Documents from the medical care provider for Australia’s detention centres say that individuals’ medical data and even their location can be incorrect
    • IHMS revelations bolster the legal and political case against the detention of asylum seekers

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

    • Healthcare in detention: how the government and IHMS responded

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    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.

    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
    • IHMS deployed staff in detention centres without police checks

    • 'Grab from the excuse bag' – how health firm IHMS tackled asylum seeker targets

    • Tony Abbott says Peter Dutton will look at revelations over detainee healthcare

  • Young asylum seekers at a detention centre run by the Australian government

    Immigration healthcare firm 'likely to fail' on child protection – briefing note

    IHMS would have failed 2014 compliance checks on whether its Curtin detention centre staff were cleared to work with children, leaked documents show
  • Children on Christmas Island were vaccinated only 7% of the time.

    'Significant risks' to health of asylum seekers in firm's failure to meet targets

    Leaked audit of IHMS reveals children got required vaccinations 7% of the time and GP appointments were made within three days 29% of the time
    • IHMS, the healthcare giant at the heart of Australia's asylum system – explainer

    • Asylum seeker healthcare firm's reports included wrong data – internal briefing

    • Fraud 'inevitable' over asylum seeker health targets, leaked documents show

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