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A new award will recognise the accomplishments of people that deal with diabetes. Healthcare professionals that play a crucial role in supporting the millions of Australians currently affected by diabetes and are being encouraged to support the inaugural Sweet Talk ...

A new batch of scholarships aims to increase the number of prepared, confident and skilled nurses providing patient care in emergency departments. Nurses working, or planning to work in emergency departments may be eligible for a range of scholarships, covering ...

Health professionals are calling for increased funding for a disease that affects one in seven Australians, but continues to receive little attention. Macular Degeneration, which attacks the central part of the retina, is the leading cause of blindness and severe ...

In a night of celebration, the HESTA Australian Nursing Awards honoured the work of the nation’s nurses and midwives. A nurse who has spent the last four years looking after the homeless people of Sydney was last week named the ...

Mental health has attracted a significant amount of new investment in the federal government’s latest budget. Nurses have applauded the federal government for delivering a well-balanced investment in mental health, but questioned where the staff will come from for the ...

Aged care funding must close the nurse wage gap, says union. Last week’s federal budget failed to include a number of key workforce issues which would help deliver quality care for older Australians, says the ANF Yvonne Chaperon, ANF assistant ...

A Queensland nurse has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. Australian Red Cross nurse and aid worker Noela Davies has received nursing’s highest international honour, the Florence Nightingale Medal. Davies, a registered nurse and midwife, has worked for Red Cross ...

Changes to midwives laws pass lower house. Draft laws aimed at ensuring the insurers of self-employed midwives are taxed correctly have been passed by parliament's lower house. The legislation also aims to make sure self-employed midwives can access the Midwife ...

Indigenous life expectancy gap largely attributable to chronic diseases, finds new report. While some inroads have been made in the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, there are still many areas where large disparities exist, according ...

Nurses are the ‘front line’ answer to tackling NCDs but need greater support, says survey. Nurses want to lead in the global fight against the further spread of non-communicable diseases but workload and time constraints are holding them back, according ...