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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.

MANILA, Philippines—A group of overseas Filipino workers has called on New Zealand authorities to approve the registration of qualified Filipino nurses working there for at least one year before the recent adoption of a policy on second courses.

“I want the focus to be on ‘the work’ and not on me,” she insists as she pores over the papers that have just delivered this grandmother and great-grandmother, who works in Goondiwindi, a $10,000 nursing scholarship.

The Nursing Council is concerned that the rapid increase in nursing programmes in the Philippines could be at the expense of the quality of nursing, and says it will raise the issue with Filipino authorities.

There have been claims over the weekend that nurse morale in two New South Wales far south coast hospitals is at an all-time low.

With no end in sight to the medical workforce shortage, the Northern Territory has become the latest area to try fill the gap by setting up degree courses for nurse practitioners.

New research shows burnout, complaints about management and a lack of housing are key factors in a high turnover of nursing staff in central Australia.

THE State Government had broken a deal to hire more nurses in public hospitals so it could save money, Liberal health spokesman Brett Whiteley said yesterday.

THE Australian Nursing Federation has blamed the Health Department's slow recruitment process for its failure to quickly employ 75 new nurses for the State's public hospitals.