New models of care will save hospitals money but will also benefit the elderly, says Terry Clout chief executive of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. To save $2.2 billion over the next four years, as well as deal ...

The routine replacement of IV drips every three days in hospital wards is costly and clinically unnecessary, new data has found. Research published in The Lancet last month has the potential to save the Australian economy millions of dollars each year ...

A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related ...

Spiritual care has a long tradition in nursing dating back to the Middle Ages but contemporary nurses often feel ill-prepared to provide this form of care in their daily practice, writes Katherine Cooper. Registered nurses are required to provide spiritual ...

Every day 12 women in Australia are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, but survival prospects are improving, says a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released today. Gynaecological cancers accounted for 9 per cent of all cancer ...

A registered nurse working as the sole health practitioner in the small coastal town of Coral Bay has been named Western Australia's 2012 Nurse of the Year. Kristy Cooper, who also won the rural and remote category, was awarded the ...

The key to identifying patients predisposed to dementia could be held by district nurses visiting the elderly, says a senior researcher with the Royal District Nursing Service. A new Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) trial, now under way in Melbourne, ...

The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has issued an apology for the part played by the profession in the forced removal of children for adoption during the 1950s to the 1970s. The union said the practices were “unjust” and “unacceptable” ...

Australian men see prostate cancer as the most important health issue they face and rank the disease as one of the top-five community health issues, says a report from the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. Released as part as of ...

A lack of adult-specific diagnostic tools for autism risks them becoming “the hidden face” of the disorder, says a researcher. Flinders University PhD candidate Clare Holmes is embarking on a 4-year study to develop new tools to improve diagnosis and ...