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A Victorian aged care home did not pay a volunteer firefighter who battled the Black Saturday bushfires, a union claims.

MIDWIVES will challenge doctors' financial monopoly over birth and pregnancy after a new government report proposed they be allowed to bill Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for their services.

Ararat breast care nurse Sue Cashin has been awarded a national scholarship to develop her skills in caring for local women with breast cancer.

When a woman arrives at hospital in labour, who do you think will do an assessment, care for the woman and deliver her baby? If you ask most women they will tell you this person was a midwife, because in most cases the birthing experience is normal despite the rising rate of Caesarean sections. This story is repeated over and over in our hospitals every day. There are about 280,000 births every year in Australia.

A Curtin University academic has warned the Australian health system may be at risk by recruiting underqualified nurses from overseas.

Belinda Wohlgemuth has wanted to become a nurse since she was 10 years old.

For the 18-year-old from Mount Warrigal, the profession is a calling.

Australian doctors have attacked the federal government plans to give midwives the same responsibilities as doctors in natal care.

The federal government has fast-tracked care assessments so a group of elderly people from bushfire ravaged Victoria can receive emergency respite care.

AUSTRALIA'S healthcare system is in desperate need of change.
Tinkering around the edges will not do the job. The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC), expected to release its long-awaited interim report next week, was charged with a vital task. The commission consulted widely and has an opportunity to take the bull by the horns by recommending bold reforms to improve access and health outcomes for everyone.

THE Health Minister will investigate claims frontline services have already been affected by the Health Department's strategy to cut $120 million from their budget.