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The lack of guidelines for hospital midwives on the controversial practice of new mums co-sleeping with their babies is being investigated as part of a world-first study in Australia. Many mums end up sleeping alongside their newborns, either deliberately or ...

One hundred staff faces the sack at RHH: Wilkie Up to 100 doctors and nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) face the sack because of Tasmanian government budget cuts, federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie says. In the state budget ...

Immunisation grants program launches to improve adult health in local Australian communities. GlaxoSmithKline has launched its fourth Adult Immunisation Grants program for healthcare professionals working in immunisation. The grants are designed to support innovation in adult immunisation by improving the ...

The two nurses who were violently attacked at a western Sydney hospital say they feel "let down", after repeated calls for increased security were ignored. Up to 50 nurses, doctors and security guards stopped work at Blacktown Hospital on Friday ...

The nation's general practitioners will be asked to co-ordinate a network of so-called Medicare Locals services. Medicare Locals will work with GPs, nurses, allied health professionals, indigenous health organisations and local hospital networks to identify and respond to gaps in ...

Two nurses have won the opportunity to travel overseas to further their passion before returning to Australia to implement their findings. Two Sydney Nursing School academics have been awarded 2011 Churchill Fellowships enabling them to develop their nursing expertise at ...

QLD Health still unsure of how many staff were being overpaid or underpaid, admits health minister. Queensland Health must regain the trust of its nurses as the bungled payroll saga continues, the nurses union says. Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) secretary ...

New treatment offers hope to sufferers of chronic wounds. A wound-healing invention developed at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has produced remarkable results in an international human trial. The multi-centre study of VitroGro found 92 per cent of the ...

Queensland Health stops collecting overpayments, for now, to refocus on fixing underpayments. In another twist to Queensland Health's payroll problems, Premier Anna Bligh has put a moratorium on chasing overpayments. The about face follows heavy campaigning by the Queensland Nurses ...

Funding agreement for interdisciplinary mental health networks extended. The Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN), an initiative of the Department of Health and Ageing, has announced its operational contract is to be extended. Given that the current funding agreement formally ended ...