Australian medical teams at work in flood-devastated Pakistan. Australia's medical task force dispatched to the flood disaster in Pakistan has treated its first patients at an emergency health facility in Kot Addu. The facility in Pakistan's Punjab province will help ...

The coordination of patient care has not been addressed in the current policies, according to AHHA. Regional community and primary healthcare organisations should be established and funded by the federal government, according to a policy think tank held by the ...

Visions for a national nursing and midwifery workforce strategy. The key outcome of the RCNA Nursing Summit held in May this year was the Nursing Accord 2010. The Accord provided a statement charging RCNA with the responsibility to provide leadership ...

Article from the Joint ANF/RCNA Pandemic Influenza Working Group. Nurses and midwives will be aware of recent reports of high levels of fever and febrile convulsions after seasonal influenza vaccination, originally0 identified as a result of mandatory reporting of adverse ...

RCNA launches new Movement Disorders and Parkinson’s Nurses Faculty. On 9 August 2010, RCNA’s fifth faculty was launched at a ceremony in Canberra. The Movement Disorders and Parkinson’s Nurses Faculty (MDPNF) is a cohort of nurses and health care professionals ...

The need for a comprehensive nursing and midwifery workforce strategy has never been more apparent, writes Debra Cerasa. Like the rest of Australia, the July-August period was a blur for us at RCNA as we keenly watched the federal election ...

Experts say the swine flu is now on Australia's doorstep. It has arrived much later this winter, but experts say the swine flu is now on Australia’s doorstep. Transmission of the a(H1N1) virus has been elevated in New Zealand for ...

Survival rates for a number of cancers have greatly improved over the past two decades. Australia’s first “Cancer Survivorship Centre” has opened to improve services for long-term survivors, in a clear sign of advance in combating the insidious disease. The ...

Chronic kidney disease is a significant burden to Australia’s health care system. Hospitalisations related to chronic kidney disease (CKD) are increasing, and look likely to remain a significant burden to Australia’s health care system, according to a report released by ...

Alternative longer-term solutions needed for hospital reform. More hospital beds will only give a short reprieve to acute hospital bed shortage, according to a new study. The study, published in Australian Health Review, suggests alternative longer-term solutions that involve both ...