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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As several countries in Europe and Africa battle a fourth wave of COVID-19, concerns as to whether Australia will follow have begun to emerge.  Top epidemiologist Professor Adrian Esterman said he is optimistic about the future but affirms that vaccines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...