Deal with WA looks as unlikely as ever. West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has said he believes several states are prepared to pull out of the national health reform agreement. It is nearly six months since WA became the only ...

Union welcomes the Victorian government's plan for more emergency department nurses. An additional 34 nurses will be employed as part of emergency department response teams at 14 key Victorian metropolitan emergency departments during peak times of the day. Making the ...

New QLD Health payroll model to help deal with pay issues at a local level. Queensland Health says it's on track with its payroll bungle fix - injecting extra staff into special pay hubs at local hospital district level across ...

Communication is vital for identifying potential risks in the workplace before they arise. Lifting and moving patients is causing hundreds of Victorian workers to suffer painful yet preventable muscle and bone injuries every year. In the year to June 2010, ...

Victoria’s nurse-on-call hotline needs reviewing, says Auditor-General. It has taken pressure off the state’s public hospital emergency departments, but the safety of the advice given by Victoria’s nurse-on-call hotline has come under question following an Auditor-General’s report. While finding that ...

New laws are needed to prevent information shared in open disclosure from being used in legal proceedings. Fears over legal consequences will stop health professionals from admitting to mistakes, a new survey has found. Researchers asked a group of 51 ...

New research says Australia is ignoring evidence that improvements in nurse staffing is a cost-effective investment for the health system. Annie May reports. The push for mandated staffing levels in all Australian hospitals has been further backed by new research ...

The government’s anti-smoking measures received high praise at UN summit says Roxon. Plain packaging and other anti-smoking measures are getting Australia noticed in the global domain, said Health Minister Nicola Roxon. The minister has returned from a United Nations health ...

Proper health reform can’t be achieved while many issues remain unresolved, says NSW nursing union. The national health reform process cannot proceed with financial certainty in NSW while the issue of mandated minimum nurse-to-patient ratios remains unsettled, says the state’s ...

Eighteen networks are set to replace eight existing area health services in NSW. The NSW government has moved to implement the commonwealth’s health reforms by introducing a bill into Parliament to establish its new local hospital networks. State Health Minister ...