Funding agreement for interdisciplinary mental health networks extended. The Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN), an initiative of the Department of Health and Ageing, has announced its operational contract is to be extended. Given that the current funding agreement formally ended ...

The final Caring for Older Australians report has been handed to the government. The completion of the Productivity Commission's final report into aged care should be the first step toward urgent reform of Australia's under-resourced aged care sector, says the ...

The impact bullying in the workforce has on retention and attraction of required workforce needs to be addressed by workforce planners. Close to one third of Australian workers say they have been bullied in the workforce, while 42 per cent ...

Parliament told that aged care nurses spend 35 per cent of their time filling in paperwork. Red tape is weighing down the aged care sector from improving their services, much to the detriment of older Australians, parliament has been told. ...

It will be “virtually impossible” for nurses to bargain for real pay rise under new IR laws, say unions. Changes to NSW public sector wages are worse than expected and foreshadow further cuts to come, according to the opposition and ...

Governments achieve mixed results in improving hospital care for all Australians. Elective surgery waiting times are not improving across the country and people are putting off seeing a doctor because of the cost, a national report has revealed. However, the ...

Mental health has attracted a significant amount of new investment in the federal government’s latest budget. Nurses have applauded the federal government for delivering a well-balanced investment in mental health, but questioned where the staff will come from for the ...

Changes to midwives laws pass lower house. Draft laws aimed at ensuring the insurers of self-employed midwives are taxed correctly have been passed by parliament's lower house. The legislation also aims to make sure self-employed midwives can access the Midwife ...

Tonight’s budget announcements are expected to include a boost to mental health funding. A mental health expert predicts a new $2 billion funding package in tonight's federal budget will help transform the sector. Treasurer Wayne Swan reportedly will reveal details ...

The federal government’s rumoured $400 million cuts to the National Health and Medical Research Council budget will not only set back health and medical research, it’ll cost lives. This sober prediction has been made by countless health experts, academics and ...