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 ...

Last Tuesday, the NSW government announced that healthcare students willing to make a five-year commitment to the state's public health system will receive $4,000 scholarships in an effort to boost the number of health workers in the public system. New ...

Yuting Zhang, The University of Melbourne; Jongsay Yong, The University of Melbourne, and Ou Yang, The University of Melbourne The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for ...

Australia is facing a sharp rise in influenza cases across several states, including New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, putting health authorities on alert. While Covid cases in Australia have decreased by 20 per cent compared to last week, there's been a ...

Australia will hold a first-ever public consultation exclusively for the LGBTIQA+ community to identify the greatest disparities affecting access to healthcare. Last Friday, a newly established expert advisory group for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, ...

New quarterly data has revealed that people in NSW continue to wait beyond clinically recommended guidelines for elective surgeries.  The latest Healthcare Quarterly data, covering the first quarter of 2023, also found that elective surgery activity has bounced back to pre-pandemic ...

Cost of contraception, lack of workforce training and a insufficient services in rural areas are among the greatest barriers women face when accessing reproductive healthcare in Australia, according the findings of a Senate inquiry. Last month, the Senate released a ...

The NSW Health Minister is prioritising fairer staffing ratios in hospitals and better working conditions for the state's frontline workers. Health Minister Ryan Park told Nursing Review he planned to address staffing shortages, high work pressure, and recruitment challenges.  "We need ...

Australia needs a federally coordinated approach to address chronic shortages in hospitals rather than a statewide effort to lure staff through incentives, according to a nursing expert. In May, Queensland's health department announced it would offer health workers up to $20,000 ...

A nurse educator has reflected on the profession's evolving role on International Nurses Day. Deputy head of Monash University's nursing school Associate Professor Helen Rawson said nurses are no longer just seen as caregivers, but as leaders who make a ...