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The final Caring for Older Australians report has been handed to the government. The completion of the Productivity Commission's final report into aged care should be the first step toward urgent reform of Australia's under-resourced aged care sector, says the ...

NSW residents have access to real-time information on the number of patients waiting in emergency departments. A website that shows updated information on waiting times at NSW emergency wards has gone live. Health minister Jillian Skinner said the website, which ...

Couch potatoes double risk of blood clots. Lying around for long stretches outside of work doubles the risk of dangerous blood clots in the lungs, according to a new study among women. The study looked at the risk of pulmonary ...

With a growing effort to keep people out of hospital, community based services are meeting an important need, writes Greta Marsh. It’s late on a Friday afternoon and 45-year-old Mary is in a great deal of pain from a laceration ...

The impact bullying in the workforce has on retention and attraction of required workforce needs to be addressed by workforce planners. Close to one third of Australian workers say they have been bullied in the workforce, while 42 per cent ...

Cell death genes that are essential for cancer therapy have been identified. With the number of cases of cancer continuing to grow, a recently launched cancer nursing research unit will help meet the needs of people in NSW by extending ...

Experiencing cancer from both sides of the bed, one nurse knows how treatment is provided is just as important as the treatment itself. By Annie May. Melissa Oostenbroek's sisters don't know how she can be a cancer nurse. For them ...

It's been three years since Jane McGrath's passing and her dream is taking flight, with the 67th McGrath Breast Care Nurse position literally taking to the skies. In a first for Australia, a fulltime breast cancer nurse will be joining ...

A new study is one of the few to examine pain in non communicative residents with dementia, writes Megan Stoyles. Enrolled nurses and personal care attendants in aged care facilities are better at recognising pain in non verbal residents with ...

After decades of painstaking research in the field, is the scientific community any closer to finding a cure for dementia? Linda Belardi reports. In the past decade progress in the clinical development of disease modifying treatments for dementia has been ...