Funding cuts in the sector may force residential aged-care service providers to reconsider admitting older people ready to be discharged from hospitals, increasing pressure on the public system, a provider has said. In a letter to state and territory premiers and ...

Health sector bodies have welcomed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement of stage one of the Health Care Homes (HCH) model, but not without caveats. The government announced the 10 regions that will participate in stage one of the model. They ...

Funding and resource shortfalls. Staffing shortfalls. Skill-mix and knowledge deficits. These were some of the barriers to care delivery identified by RNs and enrolled nurses working in rural aged care, as part of a study exploring their perceptions of the ...

About 7500 Australians will undergo dental examinations as part of a new research project that aims to assess the level of oral diseases in the Australian adult population. The $5.8 million National Study of Adult Oral Health 2016–18 will also ...

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has called on all elected representatives to work in partnership on health and prompted cross-benchers to heed voters’ concerns on healthcare reform and funding. AHHA chief executive Alison Verhoeven said: “The message to ...

Australia is facing increased rates of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as dangerously high levels of salt and sugar consumption in adults, a report card on the nation’s health has found. Released by Australian Health Policy Collaboration ...

Though we don’t yet know the final result of the 2016 federal election, the vote as it stands will already have an impact on future health policy. Dr Stephen Duckett, health program director at the Grattan Institute, said regardless of ...

Health professionals and community members have listed increasing government funding and implementing regulated nurse ratios as steps that should be taken to improve aged care. The calls come from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation’s phone-in and online questionnaire in ...

A number of peak health bodies are demanding that all political parties state what they plan to do to protect people from the worsening effects of climate change. In the lead up to the July 2 election, the Climate and Health Alliance ...

Australia can no longer adopt an 'ambulance at the bottom of the hill' approach to health. Political parties must act to reduce the burden of chronic disease. This is the call from more than 25 health and community leaders, who ...