When quality of residential aged care is called into question, two paths to improvement seem to form: improved funding and mandated staffing ratios. The peak body for all providers of age services, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), is helping forge ...

A new voice for nurses might be headed to federal parliament. Former registered nurse and current union leader Ged Kearney will run for the federal seat of Batman. President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Kearney will contest the ...

Australian hospitals should release information on complication rates so patients can identify gaps between the best and the worst-performing and make more informed decisions, health experts have urged in a new report. The Grattan Insitute report, All complications should count: ...

Wound experts have taken umbrage with the new edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Care Standards. The peak body for wound care and management, Wounds Australia, voiced its concerns that the new set of standards will lead to ...

The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is calling for improved nurse-to-patient ratios on the back of figures showing that the winter season was the busiest quarter on record for emergency departments in NSW public hospitals. In its most recent ...

Can you design a better health system around you? Professor Terry Young, from London’s Brunel University, unpacked this question in a seminar at Flinders College of Medicine and Public Health. Flinders Professor Mark Mackay said not enough time is spent ...

Australia’s mental health nurses want an emboldened approach to reducing or eliminating the use of seclusion or restraint in services. The call, from the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN), comes with the release of its new research project, ...

Federal secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Lee Thomas has announced she will be stepping down from the position to take up a new role in law. Thomas made the announcement to members at the union's Biennial ...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says it will reject any government proposals that would limit a person’s ability to use private health insurance for treatment in a public hospital. President Dr Michael Gannon warned that such a move would restrict ...

In 2004, chief executive Kim Macgowan was chatting with The District Nurses team and came across a student nurse who was sobbing. The nurse felt she had just made the last visit to one of the service’s clients. The man ...