A new voluntary patient registration scheme is set to come into effect in July as part of the government's primary care health plan. Under the new reforms, all public health care patients in Australia will be required to register with ...

A decrease in negative blood types in Australia may change how emergency blood transfusions are performed in the future, experts have said. In the first major blood group assessment done since the early ’90s, scientists from the Australian Red Cross ...

St Vincent’s Hospital chief executive Anthony Schembri has shared his eye-opening experience of feeling out of place in the healthcare system. Earlier this year, Schembri was diagnosed with a “rare and random life-changing illness” and recently returned to work after spending ...

A teenage girl was given Panadol by a remote north-west Queensland hospital and sent home on multiple occasions before succumbing to a serious heart condition that went untreated, Four Corners has revealed. Yvette “Betty” Booth was just 18 when she died from ...

Government disputes over the national mental health plan have left thousands of people with mild to moderate mental health conditions in the lurch, according to the peak nursing body. Last week, the Prime Minister announced the rollout of the $2.3 ...

This International Women's Day allows us to honour the achievements and contributions of women in health who have kept communities safe during the pandemic. And yet nursing, the most female dominated profession in the world, continues to grapple with record ...

Aged care residents, people who are unvaccinated and other at-risk communities will be among the first in the country to receive a newly approved at-home COVID-19 treatment. Antiviral pill Lageviro, also known as molnupiravir, was recently listed on the Pharmaceutical ...

The world’s largest nursing federation has expressed solidarity with the nurses and health workers trapped in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.  The International College of Nurses (ICN) released a statement urging for an end to the conflict, which as of ...

As news headlines and political debates about Australia's embattled aged care sector rage on, frontline staff have been left out of the conversation, industry advocates are saying. After 12 years in the industry, former aged care nurse and aged care ...

Residents in NSW, Victoria and Queensland are being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites after the detection of a virus that can turn into a potentially life-threatening condition. Traces of the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus were found in ...