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Doctors against pharmacy flu jabs

From April, the Priceline chain will offer a walk-in service across its 120 pharmacies where customers can buy the influenza vaccine over the counter. Plans for patients to be given the flu vaccine in pharmacies without the need of a ...

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Handing over skills in Indonesia

Sharon Humphries finds out how volunteering can make a world of difference. Each day brings new challenges for volunteer nurse educator Di Brown, on assignment in an under-resourced hospital in Bali. More than half way through a two year assignment ...

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Paperwork ‘tested’ for real at ED

At 12.51pm local time on February 22, Christchurch was rocked by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. The city was devastated, many were dead, more were injured and medical teams faced a situation "as bad as it could get". Fiona Cassie reports. ...

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Supporting our graduates – but how?

Preceptors could benefit from having a structured way of thinking about their students skills, writes Peter Kieseker. Stephanie Fox-Young, RCNA president recently wrote in an editorial how graduates needed to be supported as they start their practice and that access ...

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Stepping out of isolation

Club motivates and empowers patients to take ownership of their care. Garden clubs, book clubs, travel clubs and even Star Wars clubs - for as long as time people have been getting together with others who have similar interests. More ...

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New project supports student nurses

Increasing the amount of clinical placements is the aim of a new Queensland partnership. A new joint project between USQ and Toowoomba Hospital to increase the quality and quantity of nursing student clinical placements has the potential to address an ...

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Health reform in jeopardy

The federal government is being called upon to make last minute changes to the legislative framework of the National Health Performance Authority. A lack of consultation by the federal government over the establishment of the proposed new hospitals watchdog is ...

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A shared vision required

Local health professionals and consumers urged to engage with a potential Medicare Local. If they haven't already done so, it's time for all relevant interests to get involved with the first 15 Medicare Locals to be established from 1 July ...

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O’Farrell claims a mandate for change

More nurses, an increase in hospital beds and hospital upgrades are among the election promises that led the Coalition to a landslide victory in NSW. A triumphant Barry O'Farrell has claimed a mandate for change after the coalition demolished Labor ...

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