Australia’s health system is failing the many people who suffer from multiple illnesses as it is principally designed to deal with individual conditions, a new study suggests.
Despite a few hysterical and misleading headlines in the papers, Medicare Australia’s
National Compliance Program report provides compelling evidence that Australia’s doctors ...
Solving the issues facing aged care also means supporting family carers, not counting aged care beds, the CEO of Carers Australia, Joan Hughes has said.
Consumers, healthcare professionals, industry bodies and the broader community are among those invited to provide feedback on the accreditation standards used by the majority of ...
Research has found 70 per cent of stroke patients and 46 per cent of bystanders did not recognise stroke at the onset of symptoms, and 85 per cent did not call an ambulance immediately, ...
Three Victorian hospitals have received nearly $9 million in funding from the Rudd Government - to be used for capital infrastructure projects, surgical workforce initiatives and ...
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy, Senator Stephen
Conroy, has launched a new e-health project improving chronic disease patient care.
‘Primary care is not just about doctors and health systems, it is about health consumers. A new report not only focuses on consumers, it also seeks to improve primary care in areas ...
Australia’s aged care facilities have been left out in the cold by the Federal Government’s derisory insulation and solar power rebates under the Energy Efficient Homes scheme, Aged ...
The AMA wants the government cash incentive scheme designed to lure nurses back into the workforce to be extended to include nurses who want to work in general practice.
The LHMU, the union representing Queensland Health (QHealth) carers, has predicted a serious crisis in the provision of care unless conditions for workers in the industry are addressed ...
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists welcomes the introduction of the Surgical Safety Checklist, an important clinical tool for Australian hospitals launched ...
Leading Australian psychogeriatrician Professor Henry Brodaty AO will present his cuttingedge findings on new approaches to treating people with dementia at a Conference in Perth
this ...
Three new plans to improve health services for older South Australians, those affected by stroke and people receiving palliative care have been published.
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s recommendations offer
Australian patients the prospect of a more efficient and better integrated healthcare
system, Medicines ...
A Scottish e-health expert who is visiting the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute based at The Australian National University has applauded the National Health and ...