The heartbroken parents of a seven-year-old girl who died after waiting hours in a Perth emergency department have revealed they plan to chase millions of dollars in damages from the hospital that let them down. Aishwarya Aswath died from organ ...

If the Australian healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter on the entire planet. Experts say that nurses, making up the largest group of healthcare workers, can use their trusted voice in the community to ...

A WA nurse has been arrested on suspicion of 'administering' fake COVID-19 vaccinations. The 51-year-old female RN has been charged in "relation to the fraudulent recording of vaccine information" according to a statement from the Western Australia Police Force. On ...

For many, keeping positive and optimistic has been key to navigating the uncertainties and perils of the COVID-19 pandemic. But those harbouring an obsession with staying upbeat, or viewing negative emotions as a failure or weakness, may have fallen into ...

With Australia set to reach its next major trigger point on the national COVID plan within 10 days, the Health Minister has outlined how COVID-positive people will be treated in the future. Greg Hunt anticipates Australia will reach the 80 ...

Student nurses and midwives will be critical to assisting Australia’s recovery from COVID-19, but have gone largely unrecognised by the broader system, according to education leaders. Tracey Moroney, a professor of Nursing at the University of Wollongong, says there needs ...

A fresh legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health workers in NSW is “very different” to the two lawsuits knocked back last week, a court has been told. John Edward Larter, a paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, ...

A Tasmanian nurse who contracted Covid-19 last year has detailed how drastically her life has changed since recovering from the virus. Department of Public Health Secretary Kathrine Morgan-Wicks told reporters on Wednesday that the woman contacted her while in lockdown at the ...

Australians living with mental illness are four times more likely to be hospitalised with a vaccine preventable illness compared to the rest of the population, according to recent studies. As NSW and Victoria emerge from extended lockdowns, experts are raising ...

Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...