Further government funding has been made available for 100 regional and rural aged care providers to either expand a current facility or set up a new one. The funding comes under the Multi-Purpose Services (MPS) program, a collaborative initiative between ...

Michael Woods, University of Technology Sydney and Nicole Sutton, University of Technology Sydney Around half of Australian aged care homes are losing money, prompting concerns about their long-term financial viability and the potential for closures – particularly in the country. ...

Aged care policy experts are calling on the federal and state government to introduce a stewardship based model to fix the nation's rural, regional and remote aged care sector.  Recent figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show ...

The government has released Australia’s Long-Term National Health Plan, promising to make the health system “the world’s number one”. “The story of health in Australia is sometimes viewed through the prism of large numbers, such as $435 billion for the ...

In the emergency department, the ‘bat phone’ is reserved for urgent referrals of incoming patients. One busy afternoon, the bat phone rang to advise that a four-year-old boy had fallen off a motorbike.* He'd ridden over a river bank and ...

There is a desperate need for nurses in rural areas, but there’s also a great sense of potential for the nurses who do relocate. By Flynn Murphy I was at Royal Hobart, and I’d been there for 15 months,” recalls ...

A national peak body representing rural health students has outlined an action plan for the future of rural health in Australia. Rural health students have called for mental health training to be made a compulsory part of undergraduate health education. ...

The federal Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek says she will investigate calls by the National Rural Health Students’ Network for nurses and allied health professionals to be included in the HECS reimbursement scheme. The federal government will investigate an expansion ...

The health debate must be shifted away from "hot button issues" such as hospital beds to longer-term issues. Improving Australia's health care sector - particularly rural health - will not be achieved by more doctors or more money. And it ...