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The health debate must be shifted away from "hot button issues" such as hospital beds to longer-term issues. Improving Australia's health care sector - particularly rural health - will not be achieved by more doctors or more money. And it ...

While the prevalence of diabetes has been steadily increasing, practice nurses and GPs have had limited access to useful and informative education resources, writes Annie May. Every day in Australia an estimated 275 people develop diabetes. It's the nation's sixth ...

A pilot program in Queensland has enabled practice nurses to provide lifestyle advice to their patients in addition to providing general medical care, writes Jeff Li. Practice nurses in three Queensland clinics are motivating their patients to change their lives ...

Researchers find that the team culture and organisational structure of a general practice has a great influence on nurse activities. If practice nurses are to work to their full capacity and capitalise on funding arrangements, hierarchical structures that continue to ...

Treatment with inhaled nitric oxide is an effective therapy for hypoxic respiratory failure in babies and infants. The transition to life outside the womb doesn’t always go smoothly. Complications during birth can send an infant into respiratory distress, which can ...

Transition to remote area nursing – orientating nurses new to remote and indigenous health. Given the unique context, and the inseparable work and living conditions in which remote area practitioners provide health care services, it is of utmost importance that ...

Gillard admits it will be extremely difficult to close the life-expectancy gap by the target year of 2031 with current progress. Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants indigenous people to take greater responsibility for improving their own lives, after admitting the ...

Aged care needs improved support services to meet the needs of existing indigenous clients and encourage further use of services by the indigenous community, writes Gail Garvey. Dementia is a growing health and social concern for all Australians. The prevalence ...

In its effort to close the gap, the Australian government is keen to attract more people to work in indigenous health. Here, one nurse shares her experience working in the field. Working in remote Australia providing desperately needed ear, nose ...

A new national campaign has been to attract more indigenous people into the health workforce. Milly Cahill has 28 kids. But she isn't their mother. She is a child health nurse in Broome. This is how she introduces herself in ...