A court has ruled that the cruise ship company at the centre of a major Covid outbreak should have cancelled the Ruby Princess trip that led to 28 deaths. The Ruby Princess outbreak resulted in almost 700 passengers becoming infected ...
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AMA says ACT Medicare UCCs ignores federal government policy
Existing Canberra walk-in health clinics will be able to treat a wider range of conditions through merging with new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCCs). The scheme will be joint funded by the ACT government and will attract an extra ...
More »‘Hospitals not a target’: Nurses protest against bombing of Gaza hospital
Hundreds of health workers from Liverpool Hospital in Sydney’s south-west held a snap protest and vigil last Wednesday following the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which killed 471 Palestinians and wounded 314 others. They observed a ...
More »Tasmanian nurses and midwives accept new pay deal, however ‘not a silver bullet’ for staff vacancies
Tasmanian nurses and midwives have accepted a deal with the state government, which will pay them in the same league as other Australian states. Although welcomed by unions, one advocate said it wouldn't be "a silver bullet" to the sector's ...
More »Getting more men into nursing means a rethink of gender roles, pay and recognition. But we need them urgently
Patricia Davidson, University of Wollongong; Caleb Ferguson, University of Wollongong, and Jason Farley, Johns Hopkins University Demand for health care is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex ...
More »Healthcare workers priority in new apartment block
Sydney healthcare workers could be allocated 15 per cent of a new housing development in Crows Nest to combat the lack of affordable housing that is close to hospitals or medical centres. The Hume Place project, by developers Phoenix Property ...
More »Free enrolments for RNs at La Trobe’s Bendigo Rural Health School
La Trobe University's Rural Health School has opened new enrolments to retain and strengthen the rural nursing workforce. Once completed, the short online course results in a certificate, allowing nurses to brush up on skills in a rural setting. The ...
More »Whistleblower contradicts WA government’s comments on alleged PCH rape
A former Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) healthcare worker has come forward to dispute the WA government’s claims regarding the alleged PCH rape. At the beginning of this month, the ABC published an essay written by Florence (not her real name), ...
More »AMA calls for private health regulator to boost at-home recovery
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Stephen Robson on Friday called for a private health authority to regulate out-of-hospital care, a practice he said could save the sector millions. The 'Out-of-hospital models of care in the private health system' AMA ...
More »Challenging and rewarding – Q&A with NICU nurse Seona Emanuelli
In 2021, over 300,000 babies were born in Australia, with 17 per cent requiring admission to a special care nursery (SCN) or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Despite only making up two per cent of the nursing workforce, the number ...
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