The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety resumes hearings in Adelaide today. Last month’s hearings, held in the same city, heard about a residential aged care sector in crisis... Read more
A study published last month reveals astoundingly high levels of staff turnover in the primary health care clinics of 53 remote Northern Territory communities. The revolving door of nurses a... Read more
The post below and its embedded short film contain confronting material about the participation of nurses in tens of thousands of state sanctioned murders in Nazi era Europe. It would be eas... Read more
With tenders for the new Primary Health Networks (PHNs) due to be called before too long, there is considerable speculation and uncertainty about how the new organisations will shape up. Nur... Read more
Nurses are expected to play an increasingly important role in managing chronic diseases in general practice and primary health care more broadly. A recent study investigated the feasibility... Read more
At the recent national rural health conference in Perth, one of the priority recommendations from the floor was for a “a review of health professional scopes of practice and, informed... Read more
Are nurses qualified to provide the general public with information about medicines? Pharmacy consultant Ron Batagol doesn’t think so. He’s hopping mad that a nurse will be at the other end... Read more
Last night’s budget brought, at last, some more news of the Government’s intentions in primary care, including the release of the first national primary health care strategy. Bel... Read more
Questions are being asked about whether there is a pattern of inconsistency emerging. First we have evidence, as per the previous post, that the Government is planning something quite differ... Read more
Catherine Beadnell, editor of the Australian Nursing Journal, adds to the ongoing Croakey debate about the unfairness built into the Australian health system: “In response to Mark Ragg... Read more
