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A nurse previously deployed as part of the Commonwealth Indigenous intervention has returned to the Northern Territory to relieve a staffing shortage at the Aboriginal community of Kintore.

Australia is currently in the grips of a healthcare crisis. Ageing workforces, increasing demands of an ageing population and increasingly diverse treatments and disease processes, are draining the already stretched public healthcare systems of Australia. The current systems of healthcare delivery need to evolve to meet the increasing demands from the society they serve. They need to be flexible and organic in nature to suit the ever changing healthcare environment.

A PLAN to suspend vital emergency support to 30 home dialysis patients on the North Coast during some of the holiday season has been cancelled by the Health Department, which blamed a nurse manager for the idea.

A nurse who worked for seven years without registration, then stole two cheques from a pensioner she was caring for, has been struck off the nurses register.

BABIES born in midwife-run birth centres had significantly lower death rates than those born in hospitals, an Australian study of more than 1 million births has found.

The new Federal Labor Government has promised, in conjunction with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), to establish a National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. Its stated aim will be to develop stringent performance benchmarks in areas such as rural health, workforce and the next Australian Health Care Agreements.

Monash University has axed its nurse training program at Mildura.

THE Australian Medical Association has slammed a Federal Parliament report suggesting practice nurses could do up to 70 per cent of the work now performed by GPs.

Less than 200 blood service nurses have been given permission to take industrial action a week after 30,000 of their Victorian colleagues were told they faced $6,000 fines if they went on strike.

An innovative pre-admission programme for gynaecology surgery developed by a Waikato Hospital nurse has won a top prize at the annual national health awards.