Women from disadvantaged backgrounds in rural Australia are facing significant barriers to accessing quality maternity care, new research shows. A recent study from Victoria's La Trobe University found women living in remote areas are to be at a far higher ...

People living in NSW were more likely to be satisfied with the care they received in public hospitals than those living in other states, according to a new analysis. Last week, The Bureau of Health Information released a report examining ...

While COVID-19 hospitalisations begin to slowly plateau across NSW, the state's intensive care nurses remain under intense pressure. “People are tired, people are angry, and helplessness and hopelessness are creeping in,” said ICU nurse and NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association ...

Historically, oxygen has been treated like holy water but it's time to take a closer look at its role in hospitals. That’s the call from Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, a researcher at Monash University’s Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care (ANZIC) Research Centre. ...

No-one wants to be a patient in an intensive care unit (ICU). But if you ever do require intensive care, would you or your family like to be better informed about the harms and benefits of intensive treatment? And would ...

Patients discharged from the ICU frequently report symptoms of anxiety, PTSD or depression – and it could have major implications for risk of death. The authors of the study, from the University of Oxford, asked a total of 4,943 ICU ...

The sentiments left in nursing notes are good indicators of whether ICU patients will survive, a UK study has found. Researchers at the University of Waterloo looked at the notes from over 27,000 ICU patients and examined how sentiments related ...