All doctors and nurse practitioners will be able to prescribe the pregnancy termination pills, and all pharmacies can stock it as new rules are brought in. Until now, prescribers and dispensers of the two-part medical abortion treatment needed extra certification ...

Australia is facing a sharp rise in influenza cases across several states, including New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, putting health authorities on alert. While Covid cases in Australia have decreased by 20 per cent compared to last week, there's been a ...

New quarterly data has revealed that people in NSW continue to wait beyond clinically recommended guidelines for elective surgeries.  The latest Healthcare Quarterly data, covering the first quarter of 2023, also found that elective surgery activity has bounced back to pre-pandemic ...

The NSW Health Minister is prioritising fairer staffing ratios in hospitals and better working conditions for the state's frontline workers. Health Minister Ryan Park told Nursing Review he planned to address staffing shortages, high work pressure, and recruitment challenges.  "We need ...

Penelope Marshall has become the first-ever aged care representative of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).  With over 25 years in healthcare, Ms Marshall worked the majority as the national manager of patient safety and clinical risk for ...

Higher death rates are closely linked to shortages of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and midwifery staff, a major international study has confirmed. A new report published in the British Medical Journal analysed global health databases across 172 countries to ...

The NSW government will establish a staff working group with Australia's largest nursing union in a bid to improve to staffing levels in state hospitals. Last Thursday, the state government announced NSW hospitals would have one nurse for every three ...

A "world-first" mobile phone app to assist vital shift workers improve their sleep and mood has been created by university researchers. A group of 27 shift workers, including intensive care and emergency department nurses who, were at “high risk” of ...

A former PE teacher who has expressed support for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in public hospitals has been sworn in as New South Wales' new Health Minister. Ryan Park, a University of Wollongong graduate and longtime Labor member for Keira, was ...

The death of pregnant mother could have been prevented if she was given antibiotics at the correct time by a doctor, an inquest has found. Melbourne-based Annie O’Brien, 37, passed away due to a fatal sepsis infection in August 2017. ...