Residents locked in an apartment building for the next two weeks in Sydney’s west will be given daily welfare checks, groceries and other services after six people in the complex tested positive for Covid-19. NSW Health is aware of six ...

A radical idea involving a $10m lottery has been proposed to try to fix Australia’s slow Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Under the plan, proposed by Grattan Institute health program director Stephen Duckett, every Australian vaccinated would be eligible to win 10 weekly prizes ...

Millions of Greater Sydney residents could remain in lockdown for “at least a month”, according to a leading clinical epidemiologist. Nancy Baxter, a Canadian researcher who is the head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, told the Today ...

The COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney shows no signs of slowing down as the delta strain continues to spread through the community, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian extending lockdown measures for another fortnight. The number of people infected has blown out to ...

Nurses and paramedics will receive a 2.5 per cent annual wage increase as part of the NSW state budget announced on Tuesday. The new policy marks a reversal of last year’s controversial decision to cut pay for public sector employees. ...

Pregnant women don’t have to wait until they give birth before getting the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, according to new advice from medical experts. The updated advice means pregnant women should be offered the Pfizer vaccine against coronavirus at any stage ...

More than five million Australians have received the Covid-19 vaccine as the federal government announced GPs will be able to administer doses for people with disabilities and the elderly at their homes. Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt said 5.9 ...

Telling people that alcohol causes cancer is an effective way to get people to cut down on booze, a new study shows. Researchers from The George Institute for Global Health looked at different ways of encouraging people to reduce their ...

A former nurse has vowed to “fight to the bitter end” to force change to Queensland’s beleaguered health system after his father died following a 26-hour wait in an emergency department. Neville Clayton died less than a week after he endured ...

The nurse who cared for British PM Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care with COVID-19, has quit the NHS over lack of respect for nurses. Kiwi Jenny McGee told the UK's Channel 4 that nurses felt the government ...