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The ACT Coroner's Court inquest has found a lack of communication and preventable mistakes among Canberra Hospital's staff led to a delay in her diagnosis and, ultimately, Rozalia's death. The five-year-old is believed to have died of myocarditis brought on ...

A court has ruled that the cruise ship company at the centre of a major Covid outbreak should have cancelled the Ruby Princess trip that led to 28 deaths. The Ruby Princess outbreak resulted in almost 700 passengers becoming infected ...

Hundreds of health workers from Liverpool Hospital in Sydney’s south-west held a snap protest and vigil last Wednesday following the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which killed 471 Palestinians and wounded 314 others. They observed a ...

Tasmanian nurses and midwives have accepted a deal with the state government, which will pay them in the same league as other Australian states. Although welcomed by unions, one advocate said it wouldn't be "a silver bullet" to the sector's ...

Patricia Davidson, University of Wollongong; Caleb Ferguson, University of Wollongong, and Jason Farley, Johns Hopkins University Demand for health care is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex ...

La Trobe University's Rural Health School has opened new enrolments to retain and strengthen the rural nursing workforce. Once completed, the short online course results in a certificate, allowing nurses to brush up on skills in a rural setting. The ...

A former Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) healthcare worker has come forward to dispute the WA government’s claims regarding the alleged PCH rape. At the beginning of this month, the ABC published an essay written by Florence (not her real name), ...

In 2021, over 300,000 babies were born in Australia, with 17 per cent requiring admission to a special care nursery (SCN) or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Despite only making up two per cent of the nursing workforce, the number ...

Emergency department nurses across New South Wales are set to benefit from a new virtual reality (VR) training program about stroke care. Developed by the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and the Centre for Advanced Training Systems at the University ...

According to the NSW budget, the expiration of the Morrison-era GST safety net to ensure no state was “worse off” could result in inefficient taxes and risk essential services, such as nurses and teachers. Buried in NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s ...