Hospitals will be stretched thin on Tuesday as thousands of nurses are set to walk off the job for 24 hours despite being banned from taking industrial action. Crisis talks between health authorities and nursing industry representatives failed to reach a ...

Nurses across NSW are preparing to walk off the job for the first time in almost a decade after two years of sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals voted in favour of a ...

Some NSW nurses on the coronavirus frontline are forced to wear incontinence underwear at work because they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, an inquiry has been told. NSW politicians probing the state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deploy members of the Australian Defence Force to help assist nursing homes with staff shortages caused by surging Omicron cases. Mr Morrison said up to 10 teams of ADF personnel would give “targeted support” in ...

Oral medicines for Covid-19 are expected to be in short supply in Australia for the first few months after the drugs regulator gave them the green light. Earlier this month, the Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional approval to Pfizer’s Paxlovid ...

Operating rooms and hospital wards are sitting empty, specialised health care workers are basically on leave and thousands of Aussies are missing out on crucial surgeries, a leading medical body has warned. As the current Omicron wave forces authorities to make tough ...

Australia’s top medical officer has hinted that other states and territories could soon follow Victoria’s lead in declaring a “code brown” for hospitals, as Omicron continues to wreak havoc around the country. Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said Victoria had ...

Australia’s most reliable rapid antigen tests have now been revealed, with the country’s peak health regulatory agency now giving the green light to dozens of tests. The federal government has received backlash amid a shortage in RATs, after millions of ...

Global death rates among people living with type 2 diabetes have declined, according to experts, who say recent improvements in prevention have helped people to live longer with the disease. A new study, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, ...

An experienced nurse says she can’t get a job in Western Australia’s healthcare sector. The woman, Ebony, obtained her nursing degree in Australia and recently returned home after almost 14 years in the UK. She said it was “easy as pie” to ...