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The university and nursing sectors have teamed up to boost the number of mental health nurses in South Australia. Flinders University and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) joined forces to tackle statistics showing the state is set ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care needs to go beyond the urgent problems of residential aged care to look at the full formal system of care and support. We need to ensure we can increase staffing levels in residential care ...

Blood clots kill four times more Australians than car accidents – and not enough is being done to curb them in hospital settings. That’s why the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) released a new ...

Researchers are concerned that Australians aren’t making the most of the range of contraception available to them following findings that a quarter of women who have been pregnant in the previous decade said their pregnancy was unplanned. La Trobe University ...

A second skin for patients that provides real-time monitoring is on the horizon. Researchers at Monash University have patented a stretchable electronic device that can track health signals, from muscle strain and blood pressure to cholesterol and glucose levels. Health ...

Australian researchers have used thermal imaging to assess the wound size and predict healing trajectory of diabetes-related foot ulcers – and they say it works. Principal investigator Elif Ekinci, University of Melbourne principal research fellow and head of diabetes at ...

At 38, Amanda Keldoulis thought she had missed the boat for a career in nursing – and almost decided against heading to university to study the profession. Three years later, Keldoulis was awarded the University of the Sunshine Coast’s high ...

The recent announcement of a Royal Commission into aged care has brought issues of the staffing levels and skill mix of residential aged care facilities into focus. Demand for aged care services is increasing due to the ageing of the ...

It might be a good time to thank a colleague who made you laugh today, if a new study by Australian researchers is to go by. They’ve found a bit of humour goes a long way in the workplace. Researchers ...

The Minister for Aged Care has indicated the installation of cameras in all aged care homes is on the table following the airing of the second part of a Four Corners investigation into the sector, but industry reaction has been tentative. ...