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The COVID pandemic saw a mass exodus of health-care workers across developed countries, exacerbating an existing health-care staffing crisis. In Australia, turnover rates among hospital staff reached nearly 20% in 2022. Hospital waiting lists in Victoria alone ballooned to 80,000 ...

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Uncertainty over the future of Bendigo private St John of God Hospital's maternity ward has led midwives and parents to fight to save it from closing. Chief of the hospital Michael Hogan said that closure may be an option due ...

Australian Capital Territory (ACT) became the latest jurisdiction to introduce voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation last Tuesday – with the proposed legislation differing from existing laws across Australia by including nurse practitioners in the process. The introduction of the bill ...

Have you checked your rating as a passenger on Uber lately? If you had just one out of five stars, you’d be seriously worried that drivers would avoid you. (Hot tip: slamming the car door can get you marked down ...

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 ...