The federal budget is set to bear the weight of a much-anticipated salary increase for aged care workers as Labor seeks to attract more staff to the sector through $10,000 pay hikes. This morning, the government announced it would fully ...

The NSW health minister has said he's 'determined' to boost the healthcare workforce following the discovery of a $7bn state budget deficit, prompting cost reviews. On Monday, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said Labor inherited the largest debt in the state's ...

Recruiting overseas staff to fill workforce shortages in aged care could prompt the sector to become more culturally safe, a gerontology expert has said. Australia is increasingly more depending on overseas personal care workers and nurses to cover the anticipated shortfall ...

Edith Cowan University (ECU) has spearheaded a program to better prepare the midwifery workforce for the future. The 'Mothers Adopt Midwifery Students program' connects expecting parents and midwifery students to accompany each other through the ups and downs of pregnancy, ...

Widespread understaffing in Australian hospitals could be significantly reduced if high rates of psychological injuries among nurses are addressed, a new study said. Researchers from Australia's three leading universities, Monash, Curtin Uni, and Sydney, examined nine years of psychological injury ...

Financial barriers for students and an unwillingness of hospitals to provide practice placements are hindering studying nurses from graduating, a new study has found. Lead researcher, Professor Lesley Andrew from Edith Cowan University, says that it's critical nursing students are ...

After the challenges of funding significant spending on COVID-19, 2021’s $17.7bn aged care reform package and the additional $2.1bn for mental health, it was not unreasonable to expect that 2022’s pre-election budget would be less exciting for health than previous ...

https://youtu.be/HtMLcz1cbII Making the transition from nurse to commercial pilot might seem an unusual career trajectory, but that’s the path Geoff Hay took after training as a nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in the 1980s and working in operating ...

Attrition is a key player in the aged care sector's future workforce woes and a new survey has shown why. The survey of 5,000 workers revealed more than two-thirds (38 per cent) plan to leave the aged care sector within five years. ...

A day after attending the G20 Summit in Osaka, at which world leaders pledged to strengthen health systems, the director-general of the World Health Organization made a surprise visit to a peak nursing conference to express his support for nurses worldwide. ...