The Albanese Government's early campaign promise of establishing more than 50 urgent care clinics (UCC) has taken shape as 58 UCCs are now open across Australia. Health Minister Mark Butler said the UCCs were starting to deliver care seven days ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pay rises for registered nurses working in the aged care sector and incentives to boost the number of nurses in general practice are among the key health measures included in this year's federal budget. On Tuesday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will ...

The government's medicare overhaul could give nurses a more prominent role in diagnosing and prescribing medication for patients in healthcare settings. Last week, Labor flagged the Medicare system as 'unfit for purpose' after data revealed that bulk-billing rates had plummeted ...

Federal Health minister Mark Butler has announced that the government will fork out an additional $1.4 billion over the upcoming three months to prevent Covid outbreaks in hospitals and aged care homes.  The Covid package, due to expire by the ...

A new voluntary patient registration scheme is set to come into effect in July as part of the government's primary care health plan. Under the new reforms, all public health care patients in Australia will be required to register with ...

Shed old fashioned views that nurses can only provide care under supervision and ensure nurse practitioners are compensated through the Medicare Benefits Schedule. These are the calls the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) made at a recent presentation to the ...

Gender discrimination will soon be eradicated from Medicare documents and service provision, according to Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Minister for Human Services Jan McLucas. “If you need a medical treatment under Medicare you should be able to get ...

With practice nurses doing a wider range of work in general practice their duties and responsibilities have to be clearly defined. By Eamon Merrick, Christine Duffield, Richard Baldwin and Margaret Fry. Nursing features prominently in the future of Australia's primary ...