A Melbourne doctor who continued to practise after being suspended and then hid from authorities by locking himself in a bathroom, has been convicted and ordered to do 300 hours of community work. Nicholas Sevdalis was handed a two-year community ...

Nurses and public health officials have been locked in a "state of non-negotiations" following last week's historic industrial action, according to the peak nursing union. Nearly ten thousand nurses and midwives took to the streets in NSW last Tuesday to ...

Nurses across NSW are preparing to walk off the job for the first time in almost a decade after two years of sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals voted in favour of a ...

Two years into the pandemic, the healthcare system has been under unprecedented pressure to plan, respond, adapt and ‘step up’ to the evolving health crisis.  Nurses, at the forefront of the response, are reporting high levels of burnout, fatigue and ...

Some NSW nurses on the coronavirus frontline are forced to wear incontinence underwear at work because they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, an inquiry has been told. NSW politicians probing the state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deploy members of the Australian Defence Force to help assist nursing homes with staff shortages caused by surging Omicron cases. Mr Morrison said up to 10 teams of ADF personnel would give “targeted support” in ...

Recent research has told us that one in six women in Australia have lost their jobs due to endometriosis, with one in three being passed over for a promotion at work. A national survey of 389 women diagnosed with the ...

Oral medicines for Covid-19 are expected to be in short supply in Australia for the first few months after the drugs regulator gave them the green light. Earlier this month, the Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional approval to Pfizer’s Paxlovid ...

In Australia, medical errors result in as many as 18,000 unnecessary deaths, while more than 50,000 patients become disabled each year. Estimates suggest that 86 per cent of these events occur in a hospital setting.1 Medical errors can be caused ...

Australia’s top medical officer has hinted that other states and territories could soon follow Victoria’s lead in declaring a “code brown” for hospitals, as Omicron continues to wreak havoc around the country. Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said Victoria had ...