The South Australian state government has sought legal advice to see if COVID-19 vaccines should become mandatory for medi-hotel workers. Advice has also been sought to determine if staff who aren’t vaccinated should be moved into other roles. Earlier this week ...

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 ...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval for the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement, TGA said Australians can be confident that the regulator's review process was rigorous and of the highest standard. It ...

With Australia's timeline for COVID-19 vaccination shifting, talk has again turned to those opposed to jabs of any kind. And a Queensland academic is hoping to help boost vaccination rates across the country with the world’s first Massive Open Online ...

Phramaceutical brand Pfzier says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 per cent effective in protecting people from the virus. The news has been welcomed worldwide and one leading scientist says life might be back to normal by the spring. "I am ...

COVID-19 has kept people away from the health system, meaning many have missed out on crucial care, but Australian researchers say it’s not all bad news. Across the globe, there was a 37 per cent reduction in healthcare use across ...

The lawyers assisting the aged care royal commission last week handed down 124 recommendations for the commissioners to consider – and Australia’s nurses say the majority must be implemented. Counsel assisting Peter Rozen said there has been an absence of ...

Most of the 27-odd thousand cases of COVID-19 in Australia have been treated at home, by a team of nurses dedicated to keeping them healthy and the community safe. One of those nurses is Tony Hecimovic. Tony is a nurse ...

On the podcast this week, host Conor Burke is joined by Michelle Dowd, the nurse manager of intensive care services at Liverpool Hospital. Michelle has been intimately involved in the treatment of the sickest COVID-19 patients since the beginning of ...