Calls for a universal dental health plan gain momentum with the release of the National Dental Health Review yesterday. The Australian Greens are hopeful a new report will convince the government to commit to a universal dental health plan in ...

More advice and support on child health and parenting has been welcomed by Queensland doctors and mums. A Liberal National Party Queensland government would spend $92 million on a new Queensland maternal and child health service. LNP leader Campbell Newman ...

Victorian hospitals are seeking to halt the ANF’s rolling work stoppages with an application to the Federal Court today. The nurses' dispute worsens today with the four-hour stoppages spreading to three more hospitals - The Alfred, Sunshine and Latrobe Regional ...

The Australian Greens have introduced legislation to allow employers and employees to bargain on job security and workloads. Greens workplace relations spokesman Adam Bandt has introduced a private member's bill to parliament yesterday which he says would give Fair Work ...

A Victorian study has shed light on the incidence of violence in a paediatric hospital. Nearly half of the violent incidents involving patients at a Melbourne children's hospital required them to be physically restrained, a study has found. The Royal ...

New research suggests work-related cancer contributes to 5000 annual deaths in Australia. Carcinogens in the workplace are causing about 5000 cancers each year and medical experts say not enough is being done to reduce the risks. In an article for ...

The Australian Nursing Federation (VIC) will hold a stop-work meeting on Wednesday to plan its next move in the long-running dispute. Nurses should think carefully before they wager their jobs on a "drastic" union campaign, the body representing Victorian public ...

NSW Nurses’ Association is circulating a petition to trigger a parliamentary debate on the cost of the state’s re-entry to practice course. The NSW Nurses’ Association is petitioning the state government to help fund the cost of the $10 000 ...

New research has busted the myth that older people or less urgent cases are clogging up EDs. Demand for public emergency department care across Australia increased by 37 per cent throughout the decade ending in early 2010. This is the ...

Nurses and carers are being urged to participate in new research on end-of-life care networks. Supporting more terminally ill patients to carry out their wish to die at home is the focus of a new study led by researchers at ...