Government announces first strategic review of health and medical research in a decade. The 2011 Australian of the Year, Simon McKeon, is to chair an independent review of health and medical research in Australia and recommend a 10-year strategic health ...

Australian study to investigate the impact of nurses practitioners in Eds. Four universities and five state health authorities are collaborating in a major study to examine the effectiveness of nurse practitioners in emergency department teams. Between 2007 and 2009 there ...

Diabetes Australia calls for more sensitive discussion of the condition Health professionals should refrain from referring to diabetes as a 'disease' and describing people living with the condition as 'diabetics' or 'sufferers', according to a new position statement from Diabetes ...

Report finds one in three prisoners have experienced mental illness. Australia's prisoners have high levels of mental and physical health issues, and high numbers engage in risky health behaviours, according to a new national snapshot. The Australian Institute of Health ...

A lack of clinical placements delays graduation for up to 150 UWS students, reports Annabel McGilvray. An acute shortage of practical nurse-training positions means that up to 150 students at the University of Western Sydney will be unable to complete ...

Proposals to remove midwifery qualifications for child and family health nurses have attracted widespread criticism. Linda Belardi reports. Child and family health nurses have slammed recommendations by the Productivity Commission to remove midwifery qualifications from their training. Nurses predominantly in ...

Australia's pharmaceutical benefits scheme is being challenged by lobbying from US industry, writes Patricia Ranald. Giant US pharmaceutical and tobacco corporations are setting the agenda at negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (TPPA) between Australia, the US, New ...

Education and training increasingly has to prepare students for interdisciplinary learning, writes Linda Belardi. The Sunshine Coast's two largest education providers, USC and Sunshine TAFE, have developed a joint training initiative to increase collaboration across the health disciplines. Teressa Schmidt, ...

Survey findings confirm the need for a national policy framework to support educational development, writes Linda Belardi. Cost, release from work and time are the greatest barriers to further education, Australia's first national survey on the education and career pathways ...

Australian academics are making progress training Fijian nurses to be confident and competent in the area of disaster relief and emergency response, writes Kate Leaver. Under the leadership of Professor Kim Usher, the School of Nursing and Midwifery at James ...