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In a first for Australian health, private-practice midwives are being given access to the birthing and postnatal services of hospitals. Nurses and midwives now have the opportunity to work in self-employed mode within the health service. “It opens up a ...

In the past two months, nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) have worked more than 400 double shifts of 17 hours. It’s a situation that Neroli Ellis, Tasmanian branch president of the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), classifies as an ...

Communications has moved on and more hospitals are moving to systems where staff can use their own mobile device to stay in touch at work. Nurses might be using a wider range of mobile devices at work in the future, ...

Quotes from health portfolio holders on both sides of politics: Lawrence Springborg, Queensland Health Minister, on Queensland health cuts: • “We are about revitalising front-line services and I’m very confident that these changes will not impact on front-line services, anything ...

Can you pull billions of dollars from the health system and still maintain quality? Yvonne Chaperon thinks not Unfortunately, this isn’t a hypothetical question. Billions upon billions of dollars are being ripped from the health budgets across the country. And ...

As state governments continue to slash their spending, they say front-line healthcare is safe – but the reality on the ground seems to be different. Flynn Murphy reports The catchcry “cuts will not affect front-line services” comes from every government ...

An ageing population means palliative care is no longer a specialised field – but training is lagging. By Amie Larter In 2011, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 14 per cent of the Australian population was aged 65 years ...

Researchers from Flinders University, in partnership with collaborators in Melbourne, believe they have developed a new drug that may stop or even reverse the progression of eye disease. Led by Professor Keryn Williams of Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and ...

Australia’s imminent aging population has seen the demand for more jobs in healthcare and social assistance industries rise above any other profession. The latest census figures released by the Bureau of Statistics show that 11.6 per cent of Australians are ...

Low dose aspirin may be an effective way to prevent deadly blood clots in the leg or lungs of patients who have experienced a previous blood clot, a new study has revealed. The study, conducted by the National Health and ...