Thousands of aged and disability care workers have been forced to prove their skills as a vocational education and training (VET) provider is deregistered by the national regulator. The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled the registration of SPES ...

Following advice from the sector, the Albanese government will recommend the Governor-General defer the commencement of the new Aged Care Act by four months. The delay be the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) will allow more time for ...

An Australian law firm has today announced that it has commenced a class action against Bupa aged care facilities on behalf of residents. Echo Law alleges that from July 1 2019 “Bupa Aged Care failed to provide staffing levels that ...

As one of the great minds behind The Castle, Frontline and Utopia, Tom Gleisner is someone you'd consider to be part of the country's comedy elite, so his latest project may come as a surprise – a musical about aged ...

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 ...

The Albanese government has unveiled a $1.7bn funding boost for state-run hospitals amid “pressures” hampering the country’s health system. The funding will be delivered through a new agreement struck between the federal and state and territory governments. During yesterday's press ...

The Albanese government has announced that it will invest $18.4 million to support more nursing students to enter the nation's growing aged care sector. Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells revealed that the government is renewing it's funding for the ...

Nursing is one Australia’s most in-demand professions, despite nurses and midwives already representing over half of the nation’s health workforce. With the roles of nurses and midwives continuing to evolve, long gone are the days when on-the-job training was the ...

Researchers are calling for nurses to have more say in the digital transformation of aged and palliative care, as the sector reports a higher associated administrative burden. A recently published study out of Flinder's University has examined nurses' attitudes towards ...

Jennifer Power, La Trobe University Globally, the rates of common sexually transmissible infections (STIs) are increasing among people aged over 50. In some cases, rates are rising faster than among younger people. Recent data from the United States Centers for ...