When a family member is hospitalised with a critical illness, not knowing what is happening can increase ones fear and anxiety. But sometimes knowing can make the experience that much worse. Annie May reports. It was November of 2001 when ...

The federal government’s rumoured $400 million cuts to the National Health and Medical Research Council budget will not only set back health and medical research, it’ll cost lives. This sober prediction has been made by countless health experts, academics and ...

The problem-prone national registration system has left a number of nurses, and other health professionals, frustrated, unable to work and financially disadvantaged. The registration of nurse practitioners has been blocked by AHPRA since the changeover to that national scheme in ...

Pregnant women are not receiving enough information from midwives and health professionals on the effects of alcohol consumption on their babies, a new research study has discovered. Researchers from the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Health Initiatives (CHI) found that ...

The highly variable quality of Certificate III training across the country has emerged as an unlikely recurring theme in the Productivity Commission’s ongoing public hearings. At various hearings in Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney, providers, unions and academics have raised ...

A program to boost immunisation rates among four-year-olds on the Limestone Coast has been shortlisted in the HESTA Australian Nursing Awards. When local midwife Angela Cutting saw the need to increase pre-school immunisation rates in rural South Australia, she came ...

An internationally renowned bioethics expert has said there are reasonable concerns why health advocacy organisations should not take a definitive position on euthanasia. Professional organisations, representing both consumers and health workers, risk polarising the debate and alienating their broad constituencies ...

Legally forcing midwives into compulsory collaborative arrangements won’t work, says a midwifery academic. Writing in a recent issue of Women and Birth, Karen Lane, a lecturer at Deakin University criticised what she called the new “militarised” arrangements for midwives. She ...

The death of a baby during delivery demonstrates the need for collaborative arrangements between doctors and midwives. Coroner John Hutton last month handed down his findings of an inquest into the newborn’s death following a birth intervention at Gold Coast’s ...

Providing better patient outcomes in Australian hospitals by improving the management of acute patient deterioration events is the focus of a new research project at the University of Technology, Sydney. UTS has received funding from the Australian Commission for Safety ...