The Commission has released two new quality improvement tools to help healthcare services implement the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard launched earlier this year. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard in June to ...

A cup of black tea each day could help stave off heart disease and reduce pressure on hospitals, a new study says. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in Australia and is taking the lives of ...

An Australian-first standard has been released to educate healthcare workers, including nurses and midwives, about the prevention of stillbirths and care for families. Each day, six babies are stillborn across the country. For 30 per cent of these cases, the medical ...

A long-time fertility nurse says IVF and other reproductive treatments have come a long way from when she started her career back in the nineties. Nursing Review spoke with Jan Mackenzie, who works at Monash IVF as a nurse manager,​ in ...

A university in the Northern Territory is refurbishing their clinical simulation suites to better prepare their nursing workforce for the state's healthcare challenges. Dean of CDU's College of Nursing and Midwifery professor Karen Francis says NT's health system is in ...

Cardiology research is facing a substantial loss of expertise due to a lack of funding for basic science, according to researchers. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major contributor to Australia's overall disease burden. It remains the leading cause of death ...

Deaths in residential aged care settings occur frequently enough to be core business. It is sometimes difficult to assess when an individual might be dying, and sometimes an acute event means that they may be transferred to hospital and die ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening and time-critical medical emergency with long-ranging consequences for patients that survive. This is the message set out in the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard (the Standard), recently released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in ...

The monkeypox outbreak that has been recognised as affecting mainly men who have sex with men has raised concerns over possible stigmatisation of the gay community when accessing healthcare. Since the virus' numbers began to rise in May, there have ...

As the pandemic fostered the demand for telehealth, a team of researchers asked themselves whether it stood a chance in replacing real-life palliative care services. Following 130 palliative care patients, the two studies revealed that 91 per cent of patients ...