Nurses and midwives at the Mater Public Hospital in Brisbane have overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to implement nurse and midwife employment conditions that are inferior to Queensland Health employment arrangements. Huge majority votes were cast against the hospital’s non-government operators’ ...

Butler to recommend dementia to be added to national list of health priorities. The federal government will spend almost $270 million on the care and diagnosis of dementia sufferers, but the money falls short of calls by Alzheimer's Australia for ...

Melbourne Uni’s School of Population Health launches study into mental health of survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. In the wake of the Black Saturday bushfires, Kinglake resident Leslie Bebbington saw a need to bring the region's young people together. ...

Expert says Australia should introduce scheme similar to US and Europe. A professor of paediatric infectious diseases has called for Australia to consider adopting a compensation scheme for those who suffer a serious adverse reaction to vaccination. Professor David Issacs ...

Enter Nursing Review’s ANZAC day competition to win commemorative coin. Nurses have served alongside Australia’s Defence Forces in every conflict and peacekeeping mission since 1879. To pay tribute to their continuous service and legacy, the Perth Mint has released a ...

Hospitals are responding to climate change, but many nurses still don't understand the issue. By Teresa Lewis In response to Dr Liz Hanna's article Dealing with climate change (Nursing Review, page 16, February), I wholeheartedly agree with the need to ...

A 'virtual visit' telehealth project has won the Outstanding ICT Innovation award in the Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards 2013. The Royal District Nursing Service bagged the award for their broadband-enabled project Healthy, Happy and at Home during the 4th Ageing ...

An indigenous nursing cadet looks forward to making a difference in the health of the people of Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory. Ena Tyson is taking up Bachelor of Nursing at the Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Education (ACIKE), ...

The incidence of rickets in Sudanese patients is estimated to be 350 times greater than the national population, new research has found. Refugee children in Australia, particularly those of African descent, are more likely to suffer from a debilitating bone ...

Pregnant women with serious mental illnesses are more likely to experience antenatal and birth complications, researchers have found. Women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses had higher-risk pregnancies, more complicated deliveries and their babies were more likely ...