Aiming to reduce the rate of smoking among pregnant women and indigenous Australians, the government’s new anti-smoking campaign has been welcomed by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF). The campaign will run for four weeks with television, radio and print ads ...

The adoption of video-conferencing technology for patient consultations in Australia is at a tipping point. For the first time, national standards and clinical guidelines for the use of telehealth by nurses and midwives will be available from next year; a ...

Nurses have welcomed the federal government’s commitment to fund new aged care teaching centres to help boost Australia’s workforce. The Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler announced $8.25 million in grants to universities and aged care facilities to set up ...

Health budget cuts in Tasmania have adversely affected patient outcomes and contributed to significant workforce retention and morale issues, a damning parliamentary committee report has found. The inquiry’s interim findings released on August 31 said the state’s ability to attract ...

The hunt is still on to find insurance for homebirth services but a two-year extension on indemnity will give some breathing room, writes Hannah Dahlen The Standing Council on Health (SCoH) has recommended an extension of the professional indemnity insurance ...

New research has challenged the assumption that increased wages would do little to entice qualified nurses back into the workforce. A longitudinal study, which tracked the career decisions of nurses over a nine-year period, found that a pay rise would ...

Health budget cuts in Tasmania have adversely affected patient outcomes and contributed to significant workforce retention and morale issues, a damning parliamentary committee report has found. The inquiry’s interim findings said the state’s ability to attract and retain a quality ...

Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said the government will publish how long people are waiting to get on surgery waiting lists in an effort to "force a change in culture" in the system. Springborg said he hoped the move would ...

Victoria's abandoned multi-million-dollar e-health system implemented in just a handful of hospitals was overly ambitious and has not improved patient safety, an inquiry has been told. The HealthSMART rollout began in 2003, costed at $360 million, under the previous state ...

The Queensland Nurses Union has met with the state's health minister last week to try to convince him to keep the state's tuberculosis control centre open. The government is planning to decentralise tuberculosis services to be under the control and ...