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Groups urge independents to step up to the plate on rural health issues. The hung parliament could deliver a stronger focus on regional and rural health, according to groups. With the balance of power now in the hands of independents, ...

Negotiations resume as government agrees to “genuine talks”. South Australian nurses have suspended industrial action over staffing levels and resumed negotiations with the state government on a new enterprise agreement. Nurses recently accepted a 15 per cent pay rise over ...

Manual to provide “realistic advice” to rural health workers. A new approach to diagnosing and managing common and clinically important health conditions in remote Australia has been outlined in the latest release of a specialist practitioner book. The Alice Springs-based ...

Rising levels of obesity in Australia is putting extra pressure on emergency doctors and other hospital staff. A review of patients arriving at a Melbourne hospital's emergency ward has found almost 60 per cent were overweight or obese, posing an ...

Yoga may assist women with breast cancer lymphoedema, say researchers. South Australian researchers will investigate whether yoga can assist women living with lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment. They hope that yoga practice incorporating movement, breathing and meditation will reduce the ...

International nursing students who feared they would be deported at the end of the month because of changes to nursing registration rules have won a reprieve. Hundreds of international nursing students caught up in the transition to the new national ...

Nursing group oppose a primary health care system around medical models of service delivery. Rhetoric about health reform during the 2010 federal election is all well and good, but nurses fear that current reform will go off the boil, said ...

South Australian nurses say work proposals unsafe for staff and patients. South Australian public sector nurses and midwives will start industrial action today in support of an enterprise bargaining claim. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA secretary Elizabeth Dabars said ...

Qld payroll bungle costs $4m and is rising. Fixing Queensland's health payroll bungle has cost taxpayers at least $4 million, Treasurer Andrew Fraser says. A new system introduced in March saw hundreds of Queensland Health staff underpaid, overpaid or not ...

Last week’s health debate ignored aged care, says ANF The recent health debate between health minister Nicola Roxon and Opposition health minister Peter Dutton failed to address one of the biggest challenges facing our community - aged care. ANF federal ...