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Maitland Hospital is turning to New Zealand and other Australian states to recruit anaesthetists and specialist nursing staff to help curb limited surgical activity at the hospital.

The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MPMinister for Education, Science and TrainingAn additional 40 aged care specialist university nursing places commenced in January 2005 and $3.3 million will be allocated over the next four years to help boost the capacity of Australia's aged care workforce. The additional 40 places will increase to 109 by 2008.

QUEENSLAND Premier Peter Beattie says Queensland nurses will be given a greater role in the state health system.

Seventy per cent of mothers have experienced violent behaviour or threats from their adolescent children, a study reveals.

Medicine has made us very good at creating, delivering and saving lives. But how good are we at dying? Not very, according to those whose job it is to deal with death every day. By Jo Chandler.

VICTORIA will take up Tony Abbott's challenge to propose solutions for the nation's creaking and inefficient health system, but is deeply cynical about the federal Government's appetite for reform.

A NURSE accused of leaving patients at risk of choking to death in a Melbourne hospital should be allowed to return to work, a nurses' board hearing heard today.

SOUTH African nurses have been showing up at work in pyjamas in recent weeks to press demands for uniform allowances, in the latest sign of malaise in the health care system wracked by an exodus of medical staff.

MORE nurses and midwives are returning to the state's public health system, figures show.

GROWING demand for home-based palliative care as an alternative to nursing home care has helped an Adelaide-based business prepare to expand nationally.