It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...
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New mental health post for nurses at police stations in NSW
Mental health nurses will now be based at a number of police stations across NSW as part of the Government’s response to a growing mental health crisis. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 36 mental health nurses will be placed ...
More »Britain’s top nurse dropped for refusing to back government over lockdown breach
British PM Boris Johnson and his Government are accused of “trying to gag” medical experts after they dropped the chief nurse Ruth May from a daily briefing, as reported by The Independent. It has been reported that May refused to ...
More »Elder abuse reporting rules to change with new aged care scheme
Aged care homes will soon be required to report resident on resident abuse where the perpetrator has an assessed cognitive impairment. The removal of the current exemption will be part of the rollout of the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS). ...
More »Retention bonus ‘broken promise’: sector reacts to payment details
Aged care workers and providers are saying the government has broken its promise after it released further details about its retention bonus grant. In March, Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck announced $234.9 million for a COVID-19 retention bonus that ...
More »Nurses losing out financially in ‘underperforming, excessively complicated’ VET and TAFE system
The Australian Vocational Educational and Training (VET) sector is underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches according to an interim report released by the Productivity Commission last week. The sector costs the government $6.1 billion each year ...
More »ANMF pushes for further freeze on redundancy offers for SA nurses
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation's South Australian branch is concerned that a plan to offer redundancies to some of the state’s nurses will forge ahead despite the looming threat of a second wave of COVID-19. In a statement released ...
More »Unions blast government pay freeze for essential workers
The NSW government is pushing ahead with plans to put a freeze on all public sector pay, including nurses and other frontline workers. The freeze would scrap the planned 2.5 per cent wage increase and the treasurer said this would ...
More »Colleagues, family seek answers for nurse’s death at work
The family members of a mental health nurse who died while working in a rehabilitation ward in a hospital west of Sydney have spoken about the heartache of knowing so little about the events that led to his death. Praween ...
More »How did Hong Kong and South Korea record no coronavirus deaths in aged care?
There have been no residential aged care deaths due to COVID-19 in either South Korea or Hong Kong, despite both regions having thousands of positive cases. Experts told British MPs and members of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee ...
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