The Universities Australia Solutions Summit took place in Canberra last week, bringing together academia from across the country, as well as industry leaders and government. The flagship event aims to support national priorities with an exchange of ideas on everything ...

Registered and enrolled nurses working in aged care will soon be paid more under the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) changes to the Nurses Award 2020. The pay increases, outlined in the FWC's final determination in December of last year, will ...

The Prime Minister has promised the largest single investment in Medicare in its 41 years, tripling the current bulk billing incentive but the opposition has said it will match it. Labor announced the major $8.5 billion investment over the weekend, ...

This week, the federal government announced it will pay states and territories an extra, one-off, A$1.7 billion for public hospitals. This has been billed as a way to fix some ailing hospitals, and shorten waits for care in emergency departments ...

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 ...

A nursing assistant who took advantage of vulnerable patients in a series of fraud offences – including using a patient’s card to make transactions amounting to more than $100,000 – has been permanently banned from providing any health services in a bid ...

The federal government has announced a review into healthcare for trans and gender diverse Australians, just days after Queensland announced it would pause the delivery of puberty blockers to children pending a review into pediatric gender services. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler ...

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 ...

The Albanese government has announced a new scheme for the removal of red tape to allow a record number of overseas-trained nurses to enter the Australian workforce faster. In a statement released yesterday, the federal Minister for Health and Aged ...

An NDIS provider has been slapped with a record civil penalty after a man choked to death on food in a residential home after improperly trained staff failed to follow his dietary advice. The Federal Court imposed the $1.9m penalty ...