With reports of nurses in New York burning their scrubs in protest against vaccine mandates and footage of workers protesting in Melbourne against lockdown, the divide between 'vaccine mindsets' is growing. Around 90 per cent of health workers in Australia ...

With ongoing social distancing and lockdowns, the use of telemedicine has skyrocketed across the globe, with more patients than ever reaching for the phone to meet their healthcare needs. A new survey has delved into how primary care nurses have ...

The movement of consumer driven healthcare has become a growing phenomenon.  Engaging people accessing healthcare in the creation of policy, services, education and research is vital to address public needs, according to Dr Brett Scholz from ANU’S medical school. Dr ...

With COVID-19 severely restricting physical activity on wards, nurses have spoken out about the most significant challenges they face when getting their patients up and moving. Professor Danny Hills and his colleagues at Federation University surveyed 138 nurses and found ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is more effective than medication in treating insomnia among women during pregnancy and after birth, according to a new study. Sleep disturbances and symptoms of insomnia affect one in three Australian women after giving birth, ...

National Pain Week is an annual event drawing awareness towards the impact of chronic pain on people’s lives and this year runs from July 26 to August 1st.  Around 3.4 million Australians currently suffer from the condition. More than half ...

Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...

Making aged care homes more liveable for older Aussies will be a key feature of any changes to the sector, and as over half of all aged care residents have a dementia diagnosis, thinking outside the box when it comes ...

It has been over a week since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time ...

On the podcast this week, host Conor Burke is joined by Michelle Dowd, the nurse manager of intensive care services at Liverpool Hospital. Michelle has been intimately involved in the treatment of the sickest COVID-19 patients since the beginning of ...