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Health workers urged to ‘do something real in indigenous health’. Nurses, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other health practitioners are being encouraged to consider extending their careers to help provide care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across Australia. The Minister ...

Survey raises fears that many heart attack survivors are not receiving adequate long-term care. Heart attack survivors underestimate the danger of suffering another attack within a year and struggle to make crucial lifestyle changes, a survey has revealed. Some also ...

Independent midwives exemption to continue until 2013. Independent privately practising midwives have been given a further 12 month extension of the professional indemnity insurance exemption. The extension was agreed upon at the Australian Health Ministers Conference held in Darwin last ...

For health researcher Tricia McCabe developing strong clinical relationships with indigenous patients is first and foremost about building relationships of trust. She tells Linda Belardi. Researchers from the University of Sydney and James Cook have launched a series of online ...

Midwives urge government to relook at legislation. The government's maternity reforms are "doomed to fail" as a result of obstetricians refusing to enter into collaborative arrangements with midwives. This is according to the Australian College of Midwives (ACM), which said ...

Understanding why nurses don’t stay in the bush is integral in improving the rural workforce, writes Sue Lenthall. Working in isolation, a lack of permanent staff and cultural issues all contribute to the high levels of psychological distress, trauma and ...

The gap between undergraduate education and the advanced role of health professionals in remote areas has long been recognised by remote practitioners, writes Robyn Aitkin. Remote Australia makes up over three quarters of the Australian landmass. The population living in ...

Announced as part of the 2010 Health Reform, Medicare Locals will be rolled out as early as in the middle of this year. However, groups in the field are still divided in opinion regarding the plan, writes Jeff Li. In ...

Farmers with acute chest pain are uncertain how and when to seek help, study finds. Agriculture workers put themselves at risk of dying, says a pilot study examining the prevalence of cardiac risk factors in the group and of their ...

Report findings promote need for improvements in the bush. Two new reports show people in country Australia are missing “out badly” on access to primary health services, according to the National Rural Health Alliance. Between them, they show a primary ...