This year, Australia has spent a total of $241.3b on healthcare goods and services, which is a six per cent increase from 2021. So far from last year, a total of $241.3b has been spent on healthcare goods and services ...

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 ...

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 ...

NSW has been criticised for the lack of mental-health funding in the new state budget, which was released mid-September. It is the only state in which mental-health funding has decreased per capita over the last 10 years. October is Mental ...

Federation University Australia's (Fed Uni) new Masters of Nursing offers opportunity for registered nurses to become nurse practitioners (NPs) in regional Victoria to aid GP wait times. Masters degrees in nursing are now on the curriculum at a number of ...

The Minns government's first NSW budget released Tuesday afternoon includes $3.6 billion into fixing essential services and the largest wage increase for healthcare workers in a decade. Calls for more investment into the nursing industry have been heard by the ...

In Labor's first NSW budget, treasurer Daniel Mookhey makes $13 billion in cuts and savings, and increases a tax on big multinationals to fund a promised $3.6 billion in pay rises for public sector workers such as nurses and teachers. ...

Billion of dollars worth of cost of living measures will this month begin flowing through for millions of Australians feeling the pinch at the checkout or when paying their bills. While the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data indicate inflation ...

Yesterday, Queensland midwives rallied outside of Parliament House, calling for urgent funding from the state government. In June this year, the state government invested $42 million to help maternity services in rural and remote communities. However, it was revealed that ...

Australians won't be given a new time frame for the introduction of 24/7 nurses onsite in aged care homes after Labor conceded the July 1 deadline would be 'impossible to meet.' On Sunday, Aged Care Minister Anika Wells said she ...