Doctors are walking off the job for three days in NSW public hospitals. The doctors say they can be paid 20 to 30 per cent more in Queensland or Victoria and are hoping to be awarded pay rises like the state’s ...

The nation will head to the polls on May 3 to decide on the next Prime Minister of Australia, in what will be a key moment for the healthcare sector. After much anticipation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the general ...

Seven million Australians live in rural and remote areas and many struggle to access the same quality of health care as those in metropolitan areas. More than 18,000 Australians have no access to primary health care services within an hour’s ...

If you’ve tried to get an appointment to see a GP or specialist recently, you will likely have felt the impact of Australia’s doctor shortages. To alleviate workforce shortages, the Queensland government is considering introducing health workers called physician assistants ...

The second nurse caught up in an anti-Semitic video filmed at Bankstown Hospital has been charged. Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir were deregistered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW, effective from February 13, after a video circulated online ...

Labor has announced $644 million to open 50 more urgent care clinics, building on Anthony Albanese’s centrepiece $8.5 billion election promise to boost bulk-billing GPs. Saturday’s announcement will increase the number of urgent care clinics in the country from 87 ...

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 ...

A nurse who vowed to “kill” Israeli patients and another who claimed he had already sent Israeli patients to the afterlife have now been banned from practising “anywhere in Australia, in any context”. Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were deregistered ...

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 ...