Nurses across NSW are preparing to walk off the job for the first time in almost a decade after two years of sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals voted in favour of a ...

Some NSW nurses on the coronavirus frontline are forced to wear incontinence underwear at work because they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, an inquiry has been told. NSW politicians probing the state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deploy members of the Australian Defence Force to help assist nursing homes with staff shortages caused by surging Omicron cases. Mr Morrison said up to 10 teams of ADF personnel would give “targeted support” in ...

Oral medicines for Covid-19 are expected to be in short supply in Australia for the first few months after the drugs regulator gave them the green light. Earlier this month, the Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional approval to Pfizer’s Paxlovid ...

Australia’s most reliable rapid antigen tests have now been revealed, with the country’s peak health regulatory agency now giving the green light to dozens of tests. The federal government has received backlash amid a shortage in RATs, after millions of ...

An experienced nurse says she can’t get a job in Western Australia’s healthcare sector. The woman, Ebony, obtained her nursing degree in Australia and recently returned home after almost 14 years in the UK. She said it was “easy as pie” to ...

Before it had hit nine o’clock on a Monday morning, school nurse Lisa Chalmers had already been greeted with a raft of changes made to COVID-19 protocols and a student returning home from South Africa. "That involves then working through ...

Three people who contracted Covid-19 at anti-vaccination rallies have been hospitalised, with one in intensive care. Victoria’s Health Department confirmed 39 cases of Covid-19 have now been linked to people who attended the mass gatherings in November. Just one person ...

An Australian nurse described as “a real angel”  has died from COVID-19. Gillian “Jill” Dempsey died at Box Hill Hospital’s intensive care unit on Sunday afternoon. She is believed to be the first hospital based nurse to die from the ...

Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton signed off on furloughing staff at St Basil’s despite being unaware of an inadequate surge workforce, an inquest has heard. During Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19, 50 residents died inside the Greek facility after ...