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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.

FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT Lynne Rowbottom, described by her peers as a passionate and dedicated nurse, yesterday was farewelled at a private ceremony at her North Queensland home.

Aged care nurses in the ACT have begun demanding pay parity with their New South Wales counterparts.

SIR Joh Bjelke-Petersen was the target of hateful and threatening phone calls in hospital.

JAKARTA: The labor consignment agency, the Binawan Group, has sent another 23 nurses to work in Australian hospitals.