Australia’s plan to recruit healthcare staff from Britain to fill more than 30,000 job vacancies has been met with overseas backlash. The British Medical Association is up in arms over a plan to lure thousands of doctors from the UK ...

Nursing's national voice has welcomed the migration cap's expansion and support of work rights for international students from last week's National Jobs Summit, but says the work is far from finished. ACN chief and adjunct professor Kylie Ward had hoped ...

Mental health care in Australia has undergone a dramatic transformation since the 1980s. Old-fashioned institutions where patients received psychological care in hospital wards made way for flexible, community-based environments with an individual-focused approach. Mental health nurses were compelled to adjust ...

Proposals to remove midwifery qualifications for child and family health nurses have attracted widespread criticism. Linda Belardi reports. Child and family health nurses have slammed recommendations by the Productivity Commission to remove midwifery qualifications from their training. Nurses predominantly in ...