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A Melbourne doctor who continued to practise after being suspended and then hid from authorities by locking himself in a bathroom, has been convicted and ordered to do 300 hours of community work. Nicholas Sevdalis was handed a two-year community ...

Nurses and public health officials have been locked in a "state of non-negotiations" following last week's historic industrial action, according to the peak nursing union. Nearly ten thousand nurses and midwives took to the streets in NSW last Tuesday to ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic highlighting the shortage of nurses, including critical care nursing, governments need to act now to implement measures to ensure there are enough nurses in hospitals to supply quality healthcare and avoid poor patient outcomes. The reasons ...

While standing on a church roof with a group of schoolchildren in Papua New Guinea, Louise Dingle, a former flight attendant and trained psychotherapist, had an epiphany.  The 59-year-old had spent decades exploring the world, seeing first-hand the impacts of the ...

Nurses across NSW are preparing to walk off the job for the first time in almost a decade after two years of sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals voted in favour of a ...

Two years into the pandemic, the healthcare system has been under unprecedented pressure to plan, respond, adapt and ‘step up’ to the evolving health crisis.  Nurses, at the forefront of the response, are reporting high levels of burnout, fatigue and ...

Some NSW nurses on the coronavirus frontline are forced to wear incontinence underwear at work because they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, an inquiry has been told. NSW politicians probing the state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deploy members of the Australian Defence Force to help assist nursing homes with staff shortages caused by surging Omicron cases. Mr Morrison said up to 10 teams of ADF personnel would give “targeted support” in ...

Recent research has told us that one in six women in Australia have lost their jobs due to endometriosis, with one in three being passed over for a promotion at work. A national survey of 389 women diagnosed with the ...

While COVID-19 hospitalisations begin to slowly plateau across NSW, the state's intensive care nurses remain under intense pressure. “People are tired, people are angry, and helplessness and hopelessness are creeping in,” said ICU nurse and NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association ...