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Health professionals looking after prisoners with a mental illness lack the required skills, knowledge and resources, new research has found. Under-resourced, undertrained and overburdened. This is the current situation of Western Australian health professionals and correctional staff looking after male ...

NSW nurses vote to strike. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has urged the nurses union to heed the industrial umpire's ruling and call off a strike planned for Wednesday (November 24). The NSW Nurses Association is calling for a major overhaul ...

The first Medical Locals are expected to commence operations mid next year With the first Medical Locals expected to commence operations mid next year, some concern has been expressed the government has missed the opportunity to fundamentally reform Australia’s primary ...

Misinformation surrounds the prescribing rights of nurse practitioners and midwives. A month has passed since nurse practitioners and eligible midwives gained access to PBS and MBS, but the dust has far from settled. The new legislation – which has been ...

Specialist nurses can make a huge difference to the quality of life for people with asbestos-related diseases. Specialist nurses can make a huge difference to the quality of life, access to treatments and compensation for people with mesothelioma and other ...

Greens call for the government to take immediate action to relieve the financial stress faced by aged care organisations. The Senate has supported a Greens motion urging the Government to address the widening gap in funding for Australia’s aged care ...

E-health is much more than just computers in hospitals, writes Sue McIndoe. Australia’s health system has an enviable record internationally. However, a growing demand for healthcare reform has been recognised to prepare Australia for the future and maintain the high ...

Challenging the profession to change its way of thinking has earned a Melbourne nurse a major award. Robynne Cooke is not a nurse to be trifled with. As chief nursing officer of the major healthcare network Northern Health, she has ...

Australian midwifery students helping to save lives in East Timor. Third year Flinders University students Amy Buckerfiled and Laura Grigg are playing a critical role in Timor Leste, helping to reduce the number of women and babies dying in a ...

A new study indicates nursing curricula needs to be more in tune with the evolving health care agenda in Australia. Annie May reports. Shifting focus from hospital-based care to the promotion of health and prevention, the government is placing increasing ...