Nursing's national voice has welcomed the migration cap's expansion and support of work rights for international students from last week's National Jobs Summit, but says the work is far from finished. ACN chief and adjunct professor Kylie Ward had hoped ...

Overseas visas will be processed faster and foreign students will be able to work in the country longer under a plan to attract ‘thousands’ of nurses into Australia.  The federal government’s Job and Skills Summit, held last week, saw peak ...

For the fourth time, nurses and midwives have coloured the streets from Tweed Heads to Albury navy blue as they proudly wore their scrubs while advocating for better work conditions. The NSWNMA's statewide 24-hour strike on September 1 came in ...

After just four days of evidence, the coronial inquest into a young mother’s death in August 2017 has raised serious questions about her treatment and highlighted startling failures among medical professionals at two prestigious Victorian hospitals. But the precise findings ...

A palliative care provider is spreading awareness around community-based end-of-life services and highlighting the special role of spiritual care. Chief executive of palliative hospice provider Karuna, Tracey Porst, says spiritual issues may often come into focus when we or someone ...

Professor Enrico Coiera says his prediction that digitisation in healthcare over the past decade would lead to increased data-driven patient harm has come true. Ten years ago the director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University warned in ...

Nursing groups have welcomed Victoria's proposal to pay off university debts for nursing and midwifery students but warn that a nationwide strategy is needed to tackle sector wide shortages and burnout. On Sunday, the Victorian government announced it would spend ...

Aged care staff and residents were left waiting for COVID-19 vaccines last year due to a profound lack of planning by the federal government, a new report has shown. An analysis by the auditor-general found the health department failed to ...

The Sydney Local Health District has agreed to spend $3 million to implement a new workplace safety model for hospital workers in response to a violent incident in 2019 which saw three nurses stabbed. Following an investigation by Fair Work ...

Five new GP-led priority primary care centres are being established across Victoria in an attempt to ease the unrelenting pressure on the state’s emergency departments. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the $14.3m move on Sunday amid the state’s ongoing healthcare struggles ...