WARILLA'S SDS Pathology centre has closed its doors, leaving eight people out of work.

HUNDREDS of Hunter health jobs could be lost or moved to the private sector as the State Government pursues health sector savings.

A FORMER Australian Business Woman of the Year, Judith Slocombe, is one of several Gribbles Group executives to lose their jobs in a clean-out of senior ranks under new owner Healthscope.

When Iraqi-born medical student Alaa al-Alawy applied for a job with a pathology company, he was rejected.

A STRATEGIC MOVE to the Central Coast has given one export firm room to expand and bring even more jobs and business to the region.