Award to be honoured regardless of the outcome of the March election. A new award the nurses union has negotiated with the NSW government has the backing of the coalition if it wins the March state election. Under the award, ...

While more details are needed, overall those in the health sector have welcomed the federal government’s new deal for national health reform. Julian Drape reports. Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled the latest incarnation of Labor’s plan to shake up the ...

By not seeing health care as an economic issue, we are denying ourselves powerful tools to help solve the problem, says BCA. COAG health reforms are a first step in improving the funding of the healthcare system but are a ...

Extra spending would allow for hundreds of additional lives to be saved, a new study finds. As health experts await a decision on whether bowel cancer screening will continue to exist in Australia, a study has shown how an expanded ...

Ratios will be progressively implemented in NSW hospitals starting March NSW nurses have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a new pay and conditions package which should ensure hundreds more nurses working in state hospitals. The package was offered by the ...

NSW needs to have its own funding system as part of national health agreement, says Premier. Gillard government faces an uphill battle to finalise its national health agreement by the middle of this year if comments by NSW Premier Kristina ...

The new funding deal will put an end to the blame game, says Prime Minister. State premiers have embraced a new hospital funding deal that the federal opposition says will do nothing to help Australia's ailing public health system. Prime ...

The GST health reform deal is now in question. Federal Labor says it is still committed to health reform but it's back-pedalling from its pledge to overhaul funding to put the nation's hospitals on a more sustainable footing. Prime Minister ...

Negotiations on state government nurse staffing offer are drawing to an end. At least an extra 1400 full-time equivalent nurses could begin working in NSW hospitals if a state government offer to the NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA) is accepted. The ...

There have been mixed reactions to the Productivity Commission’s draft report into aged care. When so much change is need, there is little chance of everyone getting what they want. But, when so much change is needed, any move for ...