The pandemic has impacted many of us around the world, especially the frontline healthcare workers, myself included, as a pain physician in Melbourne. Politicians talk about revitalisation post-COVID-19 but they fail to talk about the emotional pain that the frontline ...

The United National International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, was a reminder to all employers that the gender pay gap is an ongoing problem in Australia across professions, including in nursing and healthcare. More needs to be done ...

Nursing, already under pressure, is reaching breaking point due to the pressures of COVID-19 and a disjointed healthcare system, including the acute, primary and aged care sectors. We must act now to protect our nurses and healthcare: the time has ...

One in five aged care staff plan to resign by the end of 2021, with two in five intending to quit within the next five years, according to a recent survey.  The Perfect Storm report, published by consultancy firm CompliSpace, interviewed over ...

Picture the scene. It's 2.00am and you're three coffees and two bags of m&ms down and you've lost count of how many laps of the ward you've done. You're on the first shift of a week of nights and sure, ...

The government has released nationwide aged care workforce vaccine data as the September deadline counts down to under three weeks.  In an interactive map, Health Department numbers display average immunisation rates by geographic location, identifying broad differences between metro and ...

The 2021 HESTA Excellence Awards were held on Wednesday August 25 in a virtual ceremony celebrating excellence in the allied health, aged care, community and disability services sectors. Winners were crowned for work such as reducing ear disease in Aboriginal ...

A report warning that over 110,000 workers are required by 2030 to sustain basic care needs has sector leaders eager to ramp up recruitment efforts.  Aged care will need an annual boost of 17,000 personal-care assistants, nurses and allied health ...

In the third decade of the 21st Century, it is not only disappointing but genuinely puzzling that ageism still exists in the workplace today. We know it from our lived experience but a joint research project between the Australian HR ...

Vaccination against COVID-19 will now be mandatory for anyone working in residential aged care, the government has announced. In a late night press conference after a national cabinet meeting, PM Scott Morrison said state and territory leaders agreed that by ...