Nine nursing and midwifery organisations are coming together to advocate for better utilisation of the nursing workforce ahead of the upcoming federal election. In a move reminiscent of the push to professionalise the roles some 40 years ago, nine of ...

The Greens are vowing to push major healthcare reforms into any parliamentary negotiations after next year’s election, banking on Labor being forced to form a minority government. Last Thursday, Greens leader Adam Bandt unveiled his party’s ambitious plan to make ...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Stephen Robson on Friday called for a private health authority to regulate out-of-hospital care, a practice he said could save the sector millions. The 'Out-of-hospital models of care in the private health system' AMA ...

The labour market update for 2023's September quarter found employment grew the most in the aged and disabled carer, registered nurse and child carer workforces in the year to June 2023. The Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) report recognised these ...

Nursing group oppose a primary health care system around medical models of service delivery. Rhetoric about health reform during the 2010 federal election is all well and good, but nurses fear that current reform will go off the boil, said ...