Health departments are risking an uptick in compensation claims if they don't take steps to ensure staff safety. That’s the warning from an injury compensation lawyer and former emergency department nurse. Following reports that Caboolture Hospital Mental Health Unit staff ...

Nurses working in aged care are paid so poorly that they are forced to stay on higher casual rates and work 52 weeks a year to attain a living wage, the royal commission has heard. Paul Gilbert from the ANMF’s ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has sat for 55 days so far, calling 296 witnesses. Of those, 85 per cent have given testimony on issues concerning the aged care workforce, with 113 witnesses providing their perspective ...

Historically, oxygen has been treated like holy water but it's time to take a closer look at its role in hospitals. That’s the call from Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, a researcher at Monash University’s Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care (ANZIC) Research Centre. ...

The discussion about the mental health of our older population is slowly coming to prominence yet the scale of the issue is not fully understood. Approximately half of all aged care residents exhibit symptoms consistent with depression, but these stats are likely ...

Researchers at Birmingham City University in the UK have found a link between the number of registered nurses on a ward and staff safety. The academics looked at three years of data from an NHS mental healthcare provider and found ...

The royal commission has heard from Heather Brown who described her fear of entering the “confinement” of aged care, which she and other Forgotten Australians see as another institution. Brown, 79, was taken as a ward of the state at the ...

Attrition is a key player in the aged care sector's future workforce woes and a new survey has shown why. The survey of 5,000 workers revealed more than two-thirds (38 per cent) plan to leave the aged care sector within five years. ...

Data. Big data. Using data. Gathering data. Protecting data. Modern life is data obsessed; data surrounds us and rules our lives in ways we mostly don’t see. Facebook and Google track what we engage with on the internet and target ...

The Royal commission started its second stint in Melbourne this week and is focusing on some of the sectors of society not yet heard from. “Diversity is a hallmark of humanity, yet aged care providers and the aged care system ...