The nation's palliative care communities are calling on Australian's to get 'dead set' today for Dying to Know Day. This year the national campaign, an initiative of home support services provider Proveda, is highlighting the "role of community in fostering ...

Next week, the Government will reveal their hand on whether they will honour the Aged Care Taskforce recommendations and back the reform in the Federal budget. The Taskforce Recommendations offer a sustainable pathway for Aged Care that can deliver on ...

A new aged care home by Clayton Church Homes (CCH) officially opened its doors last week in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Summerhill follows a small house healthy ageing model, which has proven to be the best in supporting older ...

A woman who tried to kill her elderly father on his request by suffocating him in a nursing home north of Brisbane acted “impulsively” in a moment of poor judgment, a court has been told. Rebecca Louise Burden last week ...

Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

An international network of children’s nursing experts has spent time during the last year creating a unique e-book, featuring the self penned COVID-19 experiences of children around the world. 'Our COVID-19 Artwork' contains drawings, pictures, poems and narrative from young ...

Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

While healthcare workers will be able to join the front of the COVID-19 vaccine queue, some might skip it entirely. In an article written for The Conversation, Associate Professor Holly Seale from UNSW pointed out that health systems represent a ...

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 ...

Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...