Queensland nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives will be allowed to prescribe termination-of-pregnancy drugs to a person in their early stages of pregnancy under proposed changes to legislation. Under these changes, it's also proposed nurses and midwives will be able to ...

A new map has illustrated the depths of Australia’s rental crisis, with many essential workers no longer being able to afford rent in any part of the country. Anglicare’s new heat map shows the areas in which essential workers, such ...

University of Southern Queensland alumnus Stephen Duckett, was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia this year for his significant service to public health policy and management, and tertiary education. Hailed by the uni as one of the leaders ...

Following the federal government's new 24/7 nursing requirement, aged care providers must adopt a multi-faceted approach to staffing and training. The new laws have created a “seismic shift” in the industry, which now needs to adapt to new ways of ...

Violence against nurses is pervasive. They are more likely to experience physical violence than any other health-care professionals. Violence against nurses occurs in the context of violence against women, with 87.5% of Australia’s nursing workforce identifying as women. Nurses report ...

A nurse in Perth has been banned from practising for five years after engaging in a threesome with two vulnerable patients and giving them tips on how to self-harm. Teagan Cant was reprimanded by the Nursing and Midwifery Board last ...

NSW Health are building a single digital patient record (SDPR) system that will store all patient records in one place to streamline health services. The state's government said there are currently nine systems used for electronic medical records, 10 administration ...

A 2023 study has found that endometriosis-related hospitalisations in Australian women (people assigned female at birth) have increased to 24 per cent in the decade, and doubled in the 20-24 age bracket from 2012-2022. The Australian Institute of Health and ...

This year, Australia has spent a total of $241.3b on healthcare goods and services, which is a six per cent increase from 2021. So far from last year, a total of $241.3b has been spent on healthcare goods and services ...

The COVID pandemic saw a mass exodus of health-care workers across developed countries, exacerbating an existing health-care staffing crisis. In Australia, turnover rates among hospital staff reached nearly 20% in 2022. Hospital waiting lists in Victoria alone ballooned to 80,000 ...