Minsiter says nurses are the backbone of health reform.

If we get it right for you, the nurses, it's likely we will be getting it right for the patients. These are the words of health minister Nicola Roxon, spoken to the first group of nurses she has stood in front of since the release of the budget. Addressing nurses from across the country at the Royal College of Australia's Nursing Summit in Canberra last week, Roxon said nurses were central to the government's health reforms. This, she said, was recognised in the budget announcements which nurses figured high in. "The health system doesn't work without nurses. Reform won't work without...