Hospitals
A program that provides young doctors with the experience of training in a rural general practice or Aboriginal Medical Services and provides more medical care to regional, rural and remote communities is being extended by ...
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the McGrath Foundation is reminding women in Australia they are in control of their own breast health and encouraging them to make this the moment to master the simple three-step ...
The Queensland Government is delivering a new vaccination campaign that will encourage more Queenslanders to get vaccinated with the message: “For the love of family, friends and time together, of brunches and long lunches, and ...
Analysis of the latest Medicare data shows the COVID-19 pandemic has had a big impact on eye health care. Between 1 March 2020 and 31 August 2021, there were 516,906 less eye tests conducted nationally ...
The Morrison Government recognises the contributions of Australian carers as part of National Carers Week. Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Richard Colbeck, said the commitment and support carers provide to senior and vulnerable ...
Australians who are severely immunocompromised will be offered the option to receive a third COVID-19 vaccine dose to boost their protection against COVID-19 to the highest level. This follows advice from the Australian Technical Advisory ...
Home deaths due COVID-19 have started to worry epidemiologists as the large numbers show that COVID-positive patients are not coming forward for testing. Associate professor Sanjaya Senanayake from the Australian National University said there had been ...
The Morrison Government launches the latest round of the traumatic brain injury grants to help support Australians living with and recovering from a traumatic brain injury. Medical research is the best hope of discovering better ...
There is increasing concern about doctors’ mental health due to rising rates of mental ill-health and suicide within the sector. According to a recent review led by the Black Dog Institute and UNSW Sydney that ...
The Morrison Government encourages reaching out to loved ones for an important conversation about mental health this R U OK? Day. This year’s R U OK? Day theme is “Are they really OK? Ask them ...
A former enrolled nurse in Queensland who continued to practise despite being aware of his registration lapse was fined $8,000 and convicted of a charge brought by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra). He ...
The Morrison Government is providing $17.7 million to rapidly establish 10 Head to Health pop up mental health clinics to support Australians in lockdown in and around Greater Sydney. They are also looking to extend ...