Ken Hillman

Hospital corridor with bed and equipment and patients walking

Medical Emergency Team: from an idea to saving 10,000 Australian lives each year

29 Jun 2023

They prevent more deaths than almost any other single hospital intervention, but implementing Medical Emergency Teams in hospitals was no easy task.

Doctors still provide too many dying patients with needless treatment

28 Jun 2016

One third of patients near the end of their life received non-beneficial treatments in hospitals around the world. These included initiating chemotherapy and providing emergency surgery, write Magnolia Cardona-Morrell and Ken Hilman

UNSW Medicine and Business experts to talk at TEDxSydney

11 May 2016

Rethinking the way we approach end-of-life and understanding why people are ingrained risk takers are the focus of two TEDxSydney talks by UNSW experts this month.

Sense of an ending

26 Mar 2015

Death is one of the final taboos in medicine, but UNSW researchers are proposing a practical rethink around end-of-life care for the elderly.

Medicine leads UNSW's Australia Day Honours

28 Jan 2015

Researchers and clinicians from UNSW Medicine dominate a list of staff and alumni whose achievements have been recognised with Australia Day Honours.

Rapid response teams halve hospital heart attack deaths

28 Aug 2014

Detecting and treating patients before they have a cardiac arrest isn’t rocket science, but it’s a life saver, writes Ken Hillman.