Chronic demand for qualified nurses in Australia has prompted sector leaders to call for greater investment in workforce development and leadership. New statistics from the National Skills Priority List, released in early October, shows there are currently 9,266 advertised vacancies ...

Federal Health minister Mark Butler has announced that the government will fork out an additional $1.4 billion over the upcoming three months to prevent Covid outbreaks in hospitals and aged care homes.  The Covid package, due to expire by the ...

Overseas visas will be processed faster and foreign students will be able to work in the country longer under a plan to attract ‘thousands’ of nurses into Australia.  The federal government’s Job and Skills Summit, held last week, saw peak ...

For the fourth time, nurses and midwives have coloured the streets from Tweed Heads to Albury navy blue as they proudly wore their scrubs while advocating for better work conditions. The NSWNMA's statewide 24-hour strike on September 1 came in ...

Nursing groups have welcomed Victoria's proposal to pay off university debts for nursing and midwifery students but warn that a nationwide strategy is needed to tackle sector wide shortages and burnout. On Sunday, the Victorian government announced it would spend ...

Aged care staff and residents were left waiting for COVID-19 vaccines last year due to a profound lack of planning by the federal government, a new report has shown. An analysis by the auditor-general found the health department failed to ...

The Sydney Local Health District has agreed to spend $3 million to implement a new workplace safety model for hospital workers in response to a violent incident in 2019 which saw three nurses stabbed. Following an investigation by Fair Work ...

Five new GP-led priority primary care centres are being established across Victoria in an attempt to ease the unrelenting pressure on the state’s emergency departments. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the $14.3m move on Sunday amid the state’s ongoing healthcare struggles ...

New research from the University of South Australia shows that children’s fears of vaccination and needles can be lessened when nurses spend additional time supporting children in the vaccination process. Working with children aged 8-12 years, the preliminary study found that ...

NSW Health has issued a public health alert for meningococcal disease after two cases were reported in people who attended this year’s Splendour in the Grass music festival in northern NSW. Meningococcal is a contagious infection classified as a medical ...