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Call to consolidate rare surgeries

Complex surgery for rare cancers should be consolidated into specialised units to improve survival rates, the NSW peak cancer control agency has said. Data from the Cancer Institute NSW has demonstrated an association between hospitals conducting very small numbers of ...

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Hospital exercise key to recovery

Exposing intensive care patients to light exercise may reduce hospitalisation and improve long-term patient recovery. Researchers at Monash University will begin trialling early exercise programs in 12 Intensive Care Units in Australia and New Zealand for patients who are mechanically ...

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Government to roll out aged care teaching centres

Nurses have welcomed the federal government’s commitment to fund new aged care teaching centres to help boost Australia’s workforce. The Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler announced $8.25 million in grants to universities and aged care facilities to set up ...

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Stillbirth risk double in South Asian women

Women born in South Asian countries including India and Pakistan have more than double the risk of a stillbirth compared to locally-born women. A study carried out at three Melbourne public hospitals between 2001 and 2011 found women from India, ...

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Call to address postnatal health in men

One in ten men report high levels of psychological distress in the first year of fatherhood, new research has found. The study led by Rebecca Giallo, senior research fellow at the Parenting Research Centre, said more needed to be done ...

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TAS inquiry critical of funding cuts

Health budget cuts in Tasmania have adversely affected patient outcomes and contributed to significant workforce retention and morale issues, a damning parliamentary committee report has found. The inquiry’s interim findings released on August 31 said the state’s ability to attract ...

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SA union push for nurse-led centres

The South Australian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has called for the state government to introduce nurse practitioner-led walk-in centres to ease the pressure on the state’s emergency departments. Similar clinics have been set up in the ...

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Global push to advance education

An Australian lecturer has helped design an east African nation’s first bachelor of midwifery curriculum. Anna Bosco, from Curtin University, was the only international representative during the two-week midwifery curriculum meeting held in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma. Bosco was invited by ...

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HWA supports physician assistants

Australia’s health ministers should support the introduction of physician assistants (PAs) as a safe and cost-effective workforce strategy, a national review has found. The Health Workforce Australia (HWA) report said medically trained PAs would help fill rural medical shortages and ...

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Placing consumers in the driver’s seat

It’s not just the outcome of a health procedure now, patients are being asked what they think of the cost and the method of delivery. By Linda Belardi Researchers are increasingly turning to the patient for clues about how health ...

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