Nominations open for 2011 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards Communities across Australia are being encouraged to nominate their most remarkable nursing professionals - in the 2011 HESTA Australian Nursing Awards. The awards, now in their fifth year, acknowledge outstanding nurses, midwives, ...

It's too early to celebrate Australia's rising organ transplant rate, doctors say, because it is still half that of other countries and this discrepancy is costing lives. Transplant authorities this week heralded the release of figures showing 2010 was a ...

Commissioners will meet today to begin work on Australia’s first national report card on mental health. The Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, yesterday launched Australia's first National Mental Health Commission. The Commission is led by the Chair, ...

QLD Premier Anna Bligh has released details of the state’s planned health restructure. Anna Bligh's plan for an overhaul of Queensland's health system has been dismissed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) as little more than political spin. AMA Queensland ...

A federal government telehealth initiative will target seniors, cancer patients and those in palliative care. Cancer patients and the elderly will be able to see their specialist or GP with the click of a mouse, even if they are hundreds ...

Public encouraged to comment on activity-based funding framework. A new federal government agency has released a framework for defining which public hospital services may be funded under national health reforms. Labor last year passed laws to set up the Independent ...

Dr Frances Hughes will step into the role from March, following a lengthy search. Following a six month search, Queensland Health has appointed Dr Frances Hughes, a former health advisor to the New Zealand government to be the state’s chief ...

Organ donations reach highest level in Australia’s history. More than 1000 lives were saved or significantly improved due to a record number of organ donors in 2011 but Australia still lags behind the world's leading countries for transplants. A total ...

Research suggests rise in caesareans is largely driven by medical advice not choice. The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are ‘too posh to push’ is incorrect, a new study shows. University of Queensland researchers surveyed ...

New patient safety figures reveal a decline in hospital errors. South Australia's public hospitals have seen a drop in serious errors and mishaps, new figures show. The latest patient safety report said the number of major events, including deaths of ...