Nursing, already under pressure, is reaching breaking point due to the pressures of COVID-19 and a disjointed healthcare system, including the acute, primary and aged care sectors. We must act now to protect our nurses and healthcare; the time has ...

Nurses in regional NSW fear that ongoing staff shortages and daily changes in exposure sites will leave them overwhelmed in the coming weeks, advocates have told Nursing Review. Health authorities have flagged the Central Coast as a growing area of ...

Rising COVID cases in several Australian states means demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds and specialist critical nurses will rise. This increase in demand is on top of the typical workload ICUs might see. And because of the nature ...

The movement of consumer driven healthcare has become a growing phenomenon.  Engaging people accessing healthcare in the creation of policy, services, education and research is vital to address public needs, according to Dr Brett Scholz from ANU’S medical school. Dr ...

NSW looks set to make COVID-19 vaccination a mandatory condition of work for healthcare workers, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald.  Health minister Brad Hazzard will sign a public health order this week which will mandate that health workers ...

A Sydney doctor has warned of a distressing reality for some families hospitalised with Covid-19 – leaving their kids “Covid orphans” with nobody to care for them. Dr Lucy Morgan, an associate professor at Sydney University and a respiratory physician ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

There have been 21 cases of COVID-19 at a Sydney aged care home as of Tuesday morning, as it was confirmed that an infected nurse worked across multiple sites. On Tuesday August 2, the NSW Department of Health confirmed that ...

On the frontlines of hospitals and emergency units around New Zealand, nurses and midwives are suffering from deteriorating working conditions.  Nurses claim they are at breaking point, reporting severe exhaustion, dangerous staffing levels and unacceptable pay and conditions. “People, including ...

Residents locked in an apartment building for the next two weeks in Sydney’s west will be given daily welfare checks, groceries and other services after six people in the complex tested positive for Covid-19. NSW Health is aware of six ...