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  Medicare Benefits Schedule – pause on rebate indexation extended The government will achieve savings of $925.3 million over two years from July 1, 2018 by extending the pause on indexation of Medicare Benefits Schedule fees for all services provided by general practitioners, medical ...

Twelve professionals from various fields are helping to lead a project with the potential to generate a clean, cost-effective solution to hospital waste. By Linda Shields Hospitals generate huge amounts of waste. Overall Australian figures are hard to collate, but ...

Four out of five nurses would consider abandoning the profession if existing penalty rates applying to wages were axed, a new ANMF survey has found. With the holiday season looming, the union has issued a fresh warning to legislators against ...

There are myriad safety and privacy concerns to consider as the explosion of pictures on social media continues. By Kirra Pendergast More than 10 per cent of all images captured in the two centuries of photographic history were taken in ...

State governments and health experts have come out swinging against the federal government's plan to slash public hospital funding. The government's 2014/15 budget included plans to change the way it funds public hospitals from 2017/18, indexing it on population growth ...

Nurses have called on the government to rule out any move that would result in the GST being extended to include basic health services. In a statement, ANMF federal secretary Lee Thomas said reports that the Coalition was considering such ...

An aged-care nurse who spearheaded efforts to ensure the safety and care of her residents during severe storms that lashed the NSW Lake Macquarie region has been named Australia’s Nurse of the Year. Catrin Dittmar, a nurse at the RSL ...

Aged-care residents are set to be among the “tens of thousands” of beneficiaries of a new partnership between the Royal District Nursing Service and the Maggie Beer Foundation aimed at delivering healthy food messages. In the deal, announced this week, the RDNS ...

The ANMF has added to recent pressure on Health and Aged Care Minister Sussan Ley to address pay and staffing issues in the sector, urging the government to devise a workforce strategy in order to guarantee quality care for aging ...

The newly minted Turnbull ministry has already come under fire for not including a designated minister for ageing or aged care. Aged care has remained under the banner of Social Services in the Cabinet shake up. In announcing the appointment ...