Thousands of Victorian nurses could score a massive wage boost of almost 30 per cent under a new agreement with the State Government just a month after industrial action shut down hospital beds and planned surgeries. The Victorian branch of ...

The NSW government will invest $450m to build at least 400 new apartments in metro Sydney for essential workers to rent at a subsidised rate under the recently announced Key Worker Build-to-Rent Program. Essential workers including nurses, paramedics, teachers, allied health ...

A new report claims that the public sector 'wages cap' enforced by the NSW Treasury between 2011 and 2023 has had a profoundly detrimental effect on the remuneration of nurses and midwives, resulting in a labour market in NSW under ...

Roles of health professionals are still unfortunately often stuck in the past. That is, before the shift of education of nurses and other health professionals into universities in the 1980s. So many are still not working to their full scope ...

Nine North Queensland nurses have officially accepted scholarships to study for their Master's at the Queensland Unversity of Technology (QUT). Partnering with the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), scholarships for a Master of Nurse Practioner or Graduate Certificate (Primary ...

Staff shortages at a regional South Australian hospital have prompted the nurses union to launch a petition demanding the government intervene. Mount Gambier Hospital, located south-east of Adelaide, needs another 36 full-time nurses and midwives to fill their roster, with ...

Prison nurses in regional South Australia are receiving specialist psychosocial training under a new program aimed at improving the mental health of people in custody. The University of South Australia's trial aims to equip nurses with the necessary skills to ...

New figures from the Department of Health and Aged Care found that residential aged care is facing a gap of 5,918 nurses by 2024-25 – an improvement of only 44 from government forecasts during the December quarter. The Australian has ...

Twelve nurses from the United Kingdom will be helping the communities across the Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) at Moruya Hospital, Batemans Bay Hospital and South East Regional Hospital. The new nurses were recruited as part of the Rural ...

Midwives working at a private Victorian hospital have claimed staffing shortages are putting mothers and babies at risk. Last month, members from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Victoria (ANMFVIC) passed a unanimous motion to express "grave concerns" about inappropriate ...