A male nurse charged by NSW police after allegedly sexually assaulting three women at hospitals in Sydney’s northwest was released on bail on Friday. In September 2021, police investigated reports a 25-year-old female patient was sexually assaulted while recovering from heart ...

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 ...

Thousands of midwives and nurses are expected to walk off the job for 24 hours after voting in favour of a strike. It comes less than six weeks after health workers took to the streets in a historic action to demand ...

A decrease in negative blood types in Australia may change how emergency blood transfusions are performed in the future, experts have said. In the first major blood group assessment done since the early ’90s, scientists from the Australian Red Cross ...

It was a life-changing event at a local football club that led Maddy Bowers to pursue nursing. The former NSW state junior equestrian champion was just 17 when her father collapsed and had a massive heart attack during the game. ...

Scrubs are day-in, day-out uniforms for nurses and other healthcare providers. From the outside looking in, it may seem like the uniform is just a singular part of the job that we don’t think about much, but the truth is ...

Paramedics have launched industrial action amid a desperate call to the NSW government to improve staffing levels, while nurses are considering walking off the job for the second time this year. NSW paramedics launched the 24-hour industrial work bans on Monday, ...

St Vincent’s Hospital chief executive Anthony Schembri has shared his eye-opening experience of feeling out of place in the healthcare system. Earlier this year, Schembri was diagnosed with a “rare and random life-changing illness” and recently returned to work after spending ...

A teenage girl was given Panadol by a remote north-west Queensland hospital and sent home on multiple occasions before succumbing to a serious heart condition that went untreated, Four Corners has revealed. Yvette “Betty” Booth was just 18 when she died from ...

Government disputes over the national mental health plan have left thousands of people with mild to moderate mental health conditions in the lurch, according to the peak nursing body. Last week, the Prime Minister announced the rollout of the $2.3 ...