Following the global financial crisis (GFC), it was expected that countries would tighten their purse strings, including within the welfare state, but is this austerity making patients sicker? Researchers, led by emeritus professor Eileen Willis from Flinders University, unpacked this ...

The Australian Digital Health Agency has announced an emergency department My Health Record pilot to develop a model that optimises clinician access to patients' health information, such as medicines, diagnostic test results and GP consultations, that may not otherwise be available ...

An Australian not-for-profit health and aged care organisation has reaffirmed its willingness to provide medical support and healthcare to asylum seekers currently held in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. St Vincent’s Health Australia (SVHA) has lent its ...

Around half of Queensland’s nurses and midwives say they have experienced workplace violence in the three months prior to a survey of state union members. This is up from around 40 per cent reported in 2001. The survey of 2397 ...

New South Wales health minister Brad Hazzard has announced that Wyong Hospital will remain in public hands, in a reversal of the state government's plan to move towards a public-private partnership. The announcement follows 10 months of campaigning from the state nursing ...

Key nursing bodies have backed recommendations to explore the staffing and skills mix in residential aged care to combat abuse of elderly Australians. The Australian Law Reform Commission on Wednesday 14 June 2017 released its report, Elder Abuse – A ...

A health and aged care provider is tackling Australia’s role in human trafficking head on. St Vincent’s Health Australia has joined forces with anti-human trafficking group Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to change the way hospitals treat ...

Nurses at Epworth Richmond are leading a hospital-wide effort to divert an estimated 12 tonnes of hospital waste from landfill each year. Theatre nurse Rebecca Pascoe has been heading a team of staff that drives the recycling of aluminium and ...

Following its release last night, health and aged care peak bodies and industry experts have sorted through the Turnbull Government’s 2017-18 Federal Budget with a fine-tooth comb. Here, Nursing Review shares what they believe are the biggest wins for the ...

On World Hearing Day – 3 March 2017 – while global initiatives were being rolled out to advocate for people with hearing loss and to ensure that effective systems are in place to deliver this, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...