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WHISTLEBLOWER nurses such as Toni Hoffman in the aged care sector could face the sack under the Federal Government's proposed industrial relations changes, a union said today.

A range of measures to save more rural birthing services across Australia - and to better assist those GP obstetricians, specialist obstetricians and midwives needed to support birthing in the bush- have been the focus of a high-level meeting in Canberra today.

Registered nurses who are also Members or Fellows of Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA) are invited to apply for a range of scholarships and awards intended to assist them in undertaking tertiary and/or postgraduate education and research activities.

Aged care homes across Australia will receive an extra $1,000 per resident in a one-off payment to target specific issues that will help ensure they remain sustainable in the long term, the Federal Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, announced today.

QUEENSLANDERS might no longer have to rely on doctors for some prescriptions, immunisations and elective surgery categorisations under a Queensland Health plan to ease its workforce deficit.
 

A group has been formed in Taree to address the huge gaps that pregnant women may slip through, due to lack of alternatives to the public hospital birthing system.

Women are being denied childbirth choices because the government is failing to help midwives secure medical indemnity insurance, midwife groups say.

The Productivity Commission has highlighted the immediate challenges for governments posed by demographic trends, in its final report on the Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia.

BENDIGO midwifery students got the chance to hear from one of Australia's very best this week when La Trobe University Professor Susan McDonald visited.

Labor and the minor parties are backing calls from midwives for Federal Government assistance to secure medical indemnity insurance and Medicare provider numbers.