New data has shown that the gender of an Australian nursing graduate has a profound effect on how much they will be paid and how quickly their career will progress. Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have published The gender pay gap in ...

Aged care in Australia, as in many parts of the world, faces significant challenges as the population ages and demand for care grows. Ethical decision-making in aged care is not an abstract ideal but a practical necessity, one that directly ...

Stephen Duckett, The University of Melbourne Australians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression. This means they’re more likely to need health care from a variety ...

Australians face the brutal reality of going through their entire working life unable to afford a home and subsequently ending up in poverty when they retire, a new report has found. The Australia Institute's Reducing poverty in retirement report compared ...

Legislation to remove Collaborative Arrangement laws that will allow nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to work to their full scope of practice came into effect last Friday. Scrapping the restrictive arrangements, which have been in place since 2010, means more ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thrown Labor’s first election pitch at a major campaign rally in Adelaide on Sunday, saying he is “determined to win the election next year”. Addressing supporters, Mr Albanese said his government came to power with ...

An innovative telehealth cart is bringing families closer together at The Good Shepherd Home, in Townsville, especially for crucial conversations with health professionals. For instance, one of the home’s residents recently connected to a family member who lived remotely and ...

An 86-year-old Adelaide Hills man has tragically personified the problem's surrounding assessments in the aged care system, requesting euthanasia under SA's Voluntary Assisted Dying laws rather than continue to wait for in-home care. Cyril Tooze was approved for a Level ...

Data has revealed a large increase in the number of people living in New South Wales who cannot afford to visit their GP. The NSW Council of Social Services (NCOSS) report Access Denied: Australians Locked Out of Quality Healthcare, conducted ...

The Australian government has announced the introduction of three new staffing quality indicators to the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (QI Program) for residential aged care. The additions, scheduled to come into effect on April 1 2025, will ...