Nurses, doctors, psychologists and dietitians are among the healthcare workers calling on government to recognise climate change in the National Preventive Health Strategy. They were among the dozens of health groups that signed a joint statement calling on Minister for ...
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Aged care system needs ‘fundamental reset’: Murphy
Secretary of the Department of Health Brendan Murphy believes the aged care system needs a “fundamental reset”. Murphy, who was Australia’s chief health officer when COVID-19 hit Australia, was responding to a question posed to him at the Royal Commission ...
More »Mandatory mask ‘fit-testing’ announced for hospitals
Nurses and other healthcare workers will get properly 'fit-tested' N95 masks to protect them from COVID-19, the Victorian government has announced. As reported by The Age, all coronavirus hospital wards in the state will now employ fit-testing to ensure a ...
More »Questions remain surrounding Oxford vaccine trial pause
Scientists around the globe celebrated news the University of Oxford would restart the trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but some called for more transparency surrounding the pause while others backed the decision to not detail the illness that prompted ...
More »Keating pitches HECS-style aged care loans
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has told the aged care royal commission it should consider recommending a HECS-style loan for older Australians to pay for their care. At today's hearing, Keating said the approach was superior to a pre-funding model, ...
More »COVID-19: How to support visits for next-of-kin at end of life
To date, many Australians who have died from COVID-19 have died alone and many others have missed out on visiting dying loved ones, but two Deakin University experts say it doesn’t have to be this way. Writing for The Conversation, ...
More »Aged care minister censured: What the pollies had to say
The Senate on Thursday censured Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck for failing to recall “the most basic and tragic facts” about aged care deaths during the pandemic – a move Prime Minister Scott Morrison has shrugged off. In August, ...
More »PM details $1.7b deal for COVID-19 vaccines
Australians will get free access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 under a $1.7 billion supply and production agreement between government and pharmaceutical companies. Under the agreement, the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland-CSL will provide more than ...
More »Girl refused bed before she died from flu
A toddler who had become "floppy and blue" and was rushed to a Sydney hospital was originally refused a bed by two separate nurses, an inquest has heard. Less than 24-hours after Caitlin Cruz arrived at Westmead Children's Hospital in ...
More »Oxford, Russian, homegrown: regardless of the vaccine, Australia ‘needs a distribution plan’
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants Australia to quickly develop a national plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccination. AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said it was pleasing to see that efforts of the medical and scientific community to fast track a ...
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