As the Omicron variant rips through the nation’s aged care sector, peaks are asking for swift action from federal cabinet to relieve critical shortages and residents under lockdown. The latest federal data has reported over 500 active COVID-19 outbreaks in ...

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 ...

Sportswear giant Nike is getting into the healthcare game again, this time manufacturing face shields and respirators for local nurses short of vital PPE. As COVID-19 has torn through nations around the world, stories have emerged of chronic shortages of ...

What happens if this pandemic gets worse? What if it got so bad that healthcare workers, doctors and nurses all walked off the job? While the Australian healthcare system has been stretched by the COVID-19 crisis, it has yet to ...