Emergency department nurses across New South Wales are set to benefit from a new virtual reality (VR) training program about stroke care. Developed by the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and the Centre for Advanced Training Systems at the University ...

NSW Health is calling on the community to be vigilant for symptoms of meningococcal disease following the death of a 50-year-old woman from Sydney. Meningococcal disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which can lead to serious infections in the ...

NSW Health has issued a public health alert for meningococcal disease after two cases were reported in people who attended this year’s Splendour in the Grass music festival in northern NSW. Meningococcal is a contagious infection classified as a medical ...

Nurses in two major Sydney hospitals have walked off the job to highlight dangerously low staffing levels. As hospitals prepare for the predicted surge of new Covid cases before the August peak, nurses gathered outside Blacktown and Westmead Hospitals on Monday morning to ...

Over thirty per cent of NSW residents are waiting over four hours for emergency medical treatment, new figures have shown, as a combination of worker shortages and rising flu cases take a toll on state hospitals. A NSW health department ...

Residents in NSW, Victoria and Queensland are being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites after the detection of a virus that can turn into a potentially life-threatening condition. Traces of the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus were found in ...