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PUBLIC hospitals in the eastern states will secure the lion's share of new $6,000 bonuses to lure former nurses back into the workforce.

Medical practitioner and nurse numbers in Australia rose by 13 per cent and 7 per cent respectively between 2001 and 2005, according to estimates released 18 January 2008 in two new reports by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Christchurch nursing student Kressy Bryant, a Pegasus Health Maori Scholarship winner, grew up surrounded by health workers.

Nurses will be paid by the federal government to come back to work in Australia's ailing health system.

LECTURERS at a Brisbane nursing college were instructed to pass all of their students regardless of their performance.

The investigation by the Queensland Nursing Council into Shafston College last year found that the college's Head of School of Nursing, Gay Carran, gave a directive to teachers that "no student should fail".

THE Ministry of Heath has completed its recruitment process for the 2008 Fiji School of Nursing (FSN) intake.

NURSES will be forced to take a language test before working in NSW hospitals following complaints about nurses being unable to speak English.

Australia is currently in the grips of a healthcare crisis. Ageing workforces, increasing demands of an ageing population and increasingly diverse treatments and disease processes, are draining the already stretched public healthcare systems of Australia. The current systems of healthcare delivery need to evolve to meet the increasing demands from the society they serve. They need to be flexible and organic in nature to suit the ever changing healthcare environment.

The New South Wales Government is being accused of not doing enough to retain experienced nurses in hospitals.

NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher has defended the government's policy of recruiting former nurses back into the health system, labelling opposition criticism of the program as empty rhetoric.