A chronic shortage of midwives in public hospitals is causing women to be discharged without proper postnatal care, midwives have said. Earlier this year, NSW hospitals had over 500 vacancies for full-time midwifery positions, resulting in women leaving hospital within two days ...

A fourth wave of Covid-19 is well and truly under way in the eastern states as a dramatic spike in cases brings fresh warnings from health authorities. A mix of Omicron subvariants – BA. 5, BA. 2.75, XBB and BQ. ...

One of Australia’s leading academic journals on nursing has welcomed a new editor-in-chief. Professor Lisa Whitehead, who'll take up position of ACN's research journal by January next, has thirty years of experience in studying and providing work on nursing, rehabilitation ...

A long-time fertility nurse says IVF and other reproductive treatments have come a long way from when she started her career back in the nineties. Nursing Review spoke with Jan Mackenzie, who works at Monash IVF as a nurse manager,​ in ...

Less than a month out from the Victorian state election, the Liberal opposition has made another massive funding announcement, this time promising $800 million in new and upgraded hospitals in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. On Wednesday, a day after the writs ...

News of a 15 per cent interim wage increase for Australia's aged care workforce has been welcomed by peak nursing groups who say more needs to be done to retain and recruit staff into the hardened sector. The Australian Nurses ...

The appearance of the two latest Covid subvariants may warrant the end of the global pandemic, an epidemiology expert has said. Sydney University's professor Robert Booy, who specialises in infectious diseases, said the latest strains BQ.1.1 and XBB are not ...

Escalating industrial action by nurses and midwives in Western Australia has seen an overtime work ban put in force by the state's union. In early October, the Australian Nursing Federation WA (ANF) initiated a ban on overtime work and double shifts after a ...

A university in the Northern Territory is refurbishing their clinical simulation suites to better prepare their nursing workforce for the state's healthcare challenges. Dean of CDU's College of Nursing and Midwifery professor Karen Francis says NT's health system is in ...

South Australians who have received at-home medical care are the next targets in a major data leak. On Wednesday, SA Health body Wellbeing SA was notified that the personal information and medical records of My Home Hospital patients who accessed ...