Palliative Care: Where Australians Should Be
A new report from The Centre for Independent Studies has revealed what many nurses already know; there is not enough access to palliative care. As many as 130,000 people could have received palliative...
View ArticleWhy Nurses And Midwives Should Care About Cuts To The ABC
The Federal Budget handed down two weeks ago by the Coalition Government has a number of problems. No new public hospital funding, no effort to mandate ratios in aged care and continued cuts to the ABC...
View ArticleWorld Hospital Congress Scholarships available for Aboriginal and Torres...
Scholarships open: Tuesday 29 May 2018 Scholarships close: 5pm (AEST) Sunday 24 June 2018 Successful applicants announced: Thursday 12 July 2018 The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association...
View ArticleAre You A Woman Working In Healthcare? Apply For This Scholarship!
FINAL CALL: UP TO $8,000 AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT All women currently employed in the Australian health sector are invited to apply for a limited pool of scholarship funding that...
View ArticleRural nurse: What I want to see in the health system
Remana is a registered nurse working in a regional hospital. We asked her what improvements she’d like to see to help hospitals operate better. Further down, she shares what she thinks we’re getting...
View ArticleWhat doesn’t kill you makes you weaker
Poverty may be putting the health of our kids at risk.
View ArticleThe Coalition’s report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
Stephen Duckett from the Grattan Institute assesses the Turnbull/Morrison government’s record on health, and it’s not looking good. The Turnbull/Morrison government has a mixed record, at best, on...
View ArticleNurses and midwives central to providing better health care
Nurses and midwives are calling on all governments to work with our professions to support the health and wellbeing of our community. There are currently 374,216 nurses and midwives registered with the...
View ArticleDon’t be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee
The Morrison Government’s Medicare Guarantee fund is just a dishonest accounting trick, says the Grattan Institutes’s Stephen Duckett. Treasurer Scott Morrison pulled a health-related rabbit out of his...
View ArticleWhat are the major parties promising on health this election?
Stephen Duckett, Director of the Health Program at the Grattan Institute, analyses the major parties’ health promises for this election. The major parties’ manifestos for the 2019 federal election...
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