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Brisbane residents will have access to urgent COVID-19 testing even when asymptomatic as fears grow over a cluster in the city. Queensland has confirmed 10 cases of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain, four locally acquired, plunging Greater Brisbane into ...

While we’re not completely out of the woods yet, we can finally start to see a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel with the COVID vaccination rollout now underway across the country. The aged care sector ...

We’ve lived with it for so long, it was beginning to seem like the Royal Commission on Aged Care would always be with us. But now that the astonishing, apparently never-ending series of revelations that shocked the nation will no ...

For some people a profession is what pays the bills, somewhere they go every day for eight or so hours. Others are more lucky and can say their profession is something they love to do, a calling, and for an ...

Lung cancer advocates have launched a petition calling for government funding for 15 specialist lung cancer nurses. Led by Lung Foundation Australia, the petition was launched this week at the 2020 Lung Cancer Conference to ask for the specialist nurses ...

https://youtu.be/DtQxJY3_74Q   Managing your own health while navigating the health system can be hard enough for most of us, but imagine having to do it with the added burden of being homeless. That’s the scenario facing clients of Erin Longbottom, ...

https://youtu.be/HtMLcz1cbII Making the transition from nurse to commercial pilot might seem an unusual career trajectory, but that’s the path Geoff Hay took after training as a nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in the 1980s and working in operating ...

Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...

A devastated mother has pleaded for people to be wary of meningococcal after it claimed the life of her teenage daughter on the NSW Central Coast. Health authorities on Monday confirmed 19-year-old Mischelle Rhodes died from the disease at Gosford ...

The South Australian coroner is set to take further evidence from a stroke specialist after it was revealed a roster bungle – which may have contributed to the deaths of two patients – had been repeated. State Coroner Mark Johns ...