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Survey asked emergency care staff in NSW to voice their priorities. By Linda Belardi. Delayed patient access to beds and inadequate staffing continue to be the critical challenges facing emergency care in NSW, a statewide survey shows. Increasing demand for ...

Cancer Council Australia calls for $15 million investment to expand screening program. Independent MPs Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Wilkie have united today to call on the federal government to expand the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program in the ...

The risk of cerebral palsy could be minimised in up to 147 Australian babies a year. Leading obstetric and neonatal specialists are calling on Australian hospitals to implement new guidelines to minimise the risk of cerebral palsy in Australian babies. ...

Sydney researchers to examine the role of genetics in alcohol liver disease. The US government is investing $2.5 million in a Sydney-based study on whether genetics plays a role in alcohol-related liver damage. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's drug health services ...

Older workers could be a panacea for the aged care industry’s workforce woes, Darragh O Keeffe reports. Forget Gen Y. If the findings of research conducted by Bupa Care Services are anything to go by, aged care providers should be ...

From conducting forensic medical exams to appearing in court as an expert witness, forensic nursing is a unique and emerging specialty. Linda Belardi talks to one nurse working in the field. It was in the years spent working in accident ...

Aged care providers hope a boost in government funding will be an opportunity for nurse practitioners to showcase their value. Darragh O Keeffe reports. Nieves Murray is pretty excited about her next staff appointment. Her organisation, IRT, was one of ...

A community-controlled Aboriginal health service is changing the experience of end-stage renal failure for many in outback Australia. By Linda Belardi. Setting off from Uluru to Warburton on its maiden journey, a mobile dialysis truck is rolling into some of ...

Innovative approaches are needed to stop the reliance on midwives to fill general nursing gaps in rural and remote areas, new research finds. By Linda Belardi. Rural midwives forced to work in a dual role fear they will lose their ...

There is much Australia can learn from other post-colonial societies when it comes to ‘closing the gap’ in indigenous health, writes Dominic O’Sullivan. While post-colonial societies like Canada and New Zealand have significantly ‘closed the gap’ in indigenous health, in ...