A $28M NURSES support fund has been introduced to the Western Australian health system and will see nurses in public hospitals benefit from improved and enhanced workplace facilities.
13/05/2009
THE QUEENSLAND state government has implemented a health listening tour across Queensland allowing the Health minister to meet frontline staff and see the first-hand challenges facing the health network.
30/03/2009
SIR CHARLES Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) has become the first hospital in Western Australia to be awarded international accreditation for delivering excellence in nursing and patient care.
12/08/2009
KIDNEY Health Australia has announced it has set up a national multi-disciplinary working party which has been designed to look at attitudes to dialysis and resources available for dialysis in Australian renal units which are under stress to cope with growing numbers.
16/06/2009
QUEENSLAND medical professionals are on standby in case they are needed as part of the national response to the Samoa tsunami.
01/10/2009
AN INTERVENTION program has been implemented by the WA Country Health Service (WACHS) giving people admitted to regional Western Australian hospitals the opportunity to participate in a study aimed at reducing alcohol abuse and smoking in country areas.
27/03/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government has announced the $94m expansion of Townsville Hospital has entered early construction stages on the North Block.
07/05/2009
QUEENSLAND is poised to recruit health specialists whose jobs are threatened at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) as a result of budget cuts by the West Australian Liberal/National Government.
13/10/2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released new Australian Guideline for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), aimed at lowering the risk of potentially fatal blood clots for adult patients admitted to hospitals.
04/12/2009
AUSTRALIAN expert Professor Raina MacIntyre has warned face masks worn by many healthcare workers do nothing to protect them during a pandemic influenza outbreak like the world is now seeing with swine flu.
21/09/2009
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new guidelines for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI).
09/02/2010
The latest proposed reforms by the Federal Government are touted to be the biggest change to Australia's health and hospital system since the introduction of Medicare. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd claims these reforms will deliver better hospitals and better health services across Australia.
05/03/2010
AUSTRALIA’S oral health status has ranked second worst in the OECD Community Services and Health Industries face skills crisis in oral health.
30/07/2009
MORE than two million Australians living with osteoporosis1 are set to benefit from the first once-a-month osteoporosis therapy, after it was today listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
01/07/2009