The second nurse caught up in an anti-Semitic video filmed at Bankstown Hospital has been charged. Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir were deregistered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW, effective from February 13, after a video circulated online ...

Labor has announced $644 million to open 50 more urgent care clinics, building on Anthony Albanese’s centrepiece $8.5 billion election promise to boost bulk-billing GPs. Saturday’s announcement will increase the number of urgent care clinics in the country from 87 ...

The Universities Australia Solutions Summit took place in Canberra last week, bringing together academia from across the country, as well as industry leaders and government. The flagship event aims to support national priorities with an exchange of ideas on everything ...

You’ve heard of the gender pay gap. What about the gap in medical care? Cardiovascular diseases – which can lead to heart attack and stroke – are one of the leading causes of death for women in Australia. But women ...

Registered and enrolled nurses working in aged care will soon be paid more under the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) changes to the Nurses Award 2020. The pay increases, outlined in the FWC's final determination in December of last year, will ...

Researchers have found that Australia and New Zealand have the highest incidence rate of breast cancer in the world. The Global Patterns and Trends in Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality report uses 2022 data from 185 countries to project the ...

The Prime Minister has promised the largest single investment in Medicare in its 41 years, tripling the current bulk billing incentive but the opposition has said it will match it. Labor announced the major $8.5 billion investment over the weekend, ...

A nurse who vowed to “kill” Israeli patients and another who claimed he had already sent Israeli patients to the afterlife have now been banned from practising “anywhere in Australia, in any context”. Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were deregistered ...

A western Sydney nurse masturbated in front of a dementia patient after turning the lights off and closing the curtains to her private room, a tribunal has heard. Ropes Crossing man Arnold Bulwayan Alunday, 48, had his nursing registration revoked for a minimum ...

This week, the federal government announced it will pay states and territories an extra, one-off, A$1.7 billion for public hospitals. This has been billed as a way to fix some ailing hospitals, and shorten waits for care in emergency departments ...