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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.

Sir Edward Dunlop Hospitals Ltd (SEDH), an Australia-based global consortium of health-related companies, is planning an institute in India to train 2,000 nurses per year.

PREGNANT women who smoke are causing their babies to be less intelligent, according to groundbreaking Queensland research.
 

The NZ Health Ministry has announced plans to introduce a national HIV screening programme for pregnant woman after an untested mother infected her baby.

Antoinette Miach is an active member of Melbourne's ageing ethnic population.

At 84, she enjoys a busy social life, which includes learning French and catching up with her fellow Italians every Tuesday.

"It's good for us. We chat, we play bingo, go on tours," she said.