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Australia has been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance patient care and improve overall health outcomes. For instance, virtual reality (VR) has been one mode, with NSW rolling out VR training for nurses to help with stroke ...

New figures from the Department of Health and Aged Care found that residential aged care is facing a gap of 5,918 nurses by 2024-25 – an improvement of only 44 from government forecasts during the December quarter. The Australian has ...

Misdiagnosed, misled, and miserable – these are some words Queensland women have used in relation to their their experiences in healthcare, according to a government survey. Almost 12,000 females were consulted for the government's landmark Women and Girls' Health Strategy ...

Nurses dismissed for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine rallied outside a major Queensland hospital, demanding re-employment. Dozens of nurses and midwives waved placards outside Gold Coast University Hospital on Saturday, following leaked Qld Health emails in The Courier Mail revealed a ...

A report reviewing universities has recommended "sweeping changes" to support students who undertake unpaid placements better financially. The Universities Accord Review, released on Sunday, has called for the federal government to pay for placements in areas of skill shortages, such ...

Casual nurses at a Western Australian hospital saw their employment terminated abruptly, a move the union has called an attempt to recover from budget overruns, but the hospital claims it was a simple administrative error. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery ...

Twelve nurses from the United Kingdom will be helping the communities across the Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) at Moruya Hospital, Batemans Bay Hospital and South East Regional Hospital. The new nurses were recruited as part of the Rural ...

Midwives working at a private Victorian hospital have claimed staffing shortages are putting mothers and babies at risk. Last month, members from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Victoria (ANMFVIC) passed a unanimous motion to express "grave concerns" about inappropriate ...

Labor's "closing loopholes" industrial relations bill has passed the Senate following deals with the crossbench, including the insertion of a Greens amendment to create a right to disconnect from work. The Greens announced last Wednesday that the Albanese government had ...

Monash Health is facing a charge over the death of an Indigenous woman who took her own life while receiving mental health treatment at Dandenong Hospital in 2022. WorkSafe Victoria announced that it had charged the public health service for ...