Aged Care

View all 06/12/2023

Ambitious aged care reforms delivering: Wells

04/12/2023

DoHAC: More than $2 billion boost for aged care homes to fund award wage increase

30/11/2023

DoHAC: Support at Home to be rolled out in two stages

ACQSC: RB 2023-23 Strengthening provider governance responsibilities – governing body requirements

DoHAC: Council of Elders communique – 20 October 2023

Allied

View all 05/12/2023

Queensland Royal Flying Doctor Service nurses take industrial action over pay dispute

04/12/2023

ADIA congratulates Senators of the Inquiry into the Provision of and Access to Dental Services in Australia

03/12/2023

‘Patients are going to die’: Compo claims deplete paramedic workforce

28/11/2023

Vic Health: Latest Graduates Bolster Ambulance Victoria’s Ranks

24/11/2023

APA (NSW) PARAMEDICS ANNOUNCE DECEMBER STRIKE ACTION –

Commonwealth

View all 07/12/2023

How do overseas-born Australians use aged care services?: AIHW report

06/12/2023

Quarterly financial snapshot of the aged care sector – Quarter 4 2022-23 – April to June 2023

Launch of Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy

05/12/2023

AIHW: Eye health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2023

03/12/2023

DoHAC: HIV Taskforce report points way to end transmission of HIV by 2030

Community Care

View all 25/10/2023

Championing recognition for unpaid carers

24/10/2023

Care in the comfort of home: WSLHD launches inTouch Community Care video consultations in western Sydney

18/07/2023

ACT Health: CanTEST final report finds strong community support

16/07/2023

Precision medicine for Indigenous communities: National Indigenous genomics initiative launch

07/07/2023

Amaze and Autism Community Network Australia Partnership Announcement

Devices

View all 06/12/2023

TGA Warning over Resmed masks with magnets

29/09/2023

DoHAC: Advice on the Prostheses List adjusted benefit amounts

28/09/2023

DoHAC: Prescribed List of Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products

16/08/2023

Cochlear declares end to the pandemic and hangover surgeries as sales soar 17pc

11/08/2023

Fresenius Medical Care ANZ manufacturing plant accelerates sustainability goals with renewable energy

Digital Health

View all 07/12/2023

The Imperative of Digital Resilience in Healthcare: upcoming webinar

30/11/2023

PHAA: Modernising My Health Record – Sharing pathology and diagnostic imaging reports by default and removing consumer access delays

The San implements Foxo and Agfa innovations for radiology communications

29/11/2023

The Impact of Digital Technology on Self-Management in Cancer: Systematic Review

24/11/2023

Cancer patients in Western NSW benefit from state-of-the-art treatment closer to home

Disability

View all 07/12/2023

All levels of government must work together to deliver NDIS reforms: AAPi

06/12/2023

Benevolent Society opens new Wollongong Office

04/12/2023

Read the NDIS’s latest newsletter

01/12/2023

States raise alarm with NDIS review

29/11/2023

DSS: Fraud Fusion Taskforce investigates $1 billion in NDIS payments in first year

Education

View all 06/12/2023

Healthcare Sector women’s leadership scholarship: closing date extended

04/10/2023

Women and Leadership Australia: Advance your career with a Healthcare Sector women’s leadership scholarship

09/09/2023

AMA issues blueprint to support medical students and doctors with disability

28/08/2023

Research excellence helps CDU crack the top 700 in Shanghai Academic Rankings

22/08/2023

University of Sydney: Powerful firms that put the ‘con’ into consulting

Emergency Services

View all 10/08/2023

Vic Health: Even More Paramedics Hitting The Road

02/08/2023

Vic Health: New Euroa Ambulance Station On The Way

16/07/2023

Albury-Wodonga: Works To Deliver Bigger, Better ED Hit The Halfway Mark

29/06/2023

NSW Government working to reduce ramping, strain on emergency departments

26/06/2023

New graduate paramedics hit the road in Tasmania

Federal Government

View all 07/12/2023

Laws begin a new era for tobacco control: Butler

06/12/2023

$1.4 million to boost Southern Downs healthcare

04/12/2023

Medicines Australia welcomes Government response to New Frontier report

23/11/2023

New report recommends major reforms to encourage response to antimicrobial resistance

17/11/2023

Dementia care respite grants to help older Australians and their carers

First Nations

View all 29/11/2023

New resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and gout

Report released on inquiry into the application of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Australia

ABS: Mental health and social and emotional wellbeing data sources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

10/11/2023

AMA: Home is where the heart is for AMA Indigenous Medical Scholarship recipient

08/11/2023

“It’s gotta be done right way”: a qualitative study exploring the acceptability of a proposed longitudinal cohort study of young Aboriginal children in Alice Springs

Hospitals

View all 03/12/2023

Catholic Health Australia endorses move to establish anti-slavery commissioner

30/11/2023

The RMH and WEHI announce new $100m centre for immunology

NSW Health: Transitional Aged Care beds easing hospital pressure

21/11/2023

Ramsay Healthcare: Tamworth’s upgraded Tamara Private Hospital goes on display

14/11/2023

$150,000 TO BRIGHTEN THE SMILES OF SICK KIDS AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

Insurance

View all 24/11/2023

APRA responds to consultation on amendments to private health insurance reporting standards

PHA: Record PHI membership, record claims and the risk of higher premiums

APRA releases quarterly private health insurance statistics for September 2023

23/11/2023

GMHBA wins three Canstar awards for Outstanding Value Hospital Insurance

22/11/2023

All eyes on Medibank AGM as it shapes as Cura Group frontrunner

LGBTQIA+

View all 23/10/2023

Candid video series “Ask Me Anything” seeks to normalise conversations around sexual health, gender equality and more

20/09/2023

DoHAC: LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing 10-year National Action Plan Expert Advisory Group (EAG) Communique – 8 September 2023

15/09/2023

Inquest to examine apparent suicides of five trans and gender diverse Victorians in bid to stop further deaths

12/09/2023

RMIT: LGBTQIA+ goes worldwide as first multilingual language resource launches

08/09/2023

Fast access to hormone therapy in transgender adults ‘lifesaving’, study finds

Medical practitioners

View all 30/08/2023

Doctor under investigation after patient dies

18/07/2023

Training the next generation of doctors in NSW

03/07/2023

Doctors on notice as cosmetic surgery practice and advertising changes come into effect

21/06/2023

National Health Practitioner Ombudsman: May review

06/06/2023

Draft Australian Clinical Guidelines for Health Professionals Managing People with Whiplash-Associated Disorders

Medico-legal

View all 15/08/2023

Historic win for junior doctors in wage theft case for unpaid overtime

13/07/2023

Charlie Teo found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct

08/06/2023

Mixed prospects for Merck lawsuit against US federal government, says GlobalData

17/05/2023

Three health practitioners hit with fines over unlawful importation of prescription medicines

15/05/2023

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers welcome OAIC decision to investigate Medibank complaint

Mental Health

View all 04/12/2023

DoHAC: $33.7 million for grants to support provisional psychologists to practice

03/12/2023

Victorian Health: Funding To Upgrade Victorian Mental Health Facilities

28/11/2023

Identifying effective school-based mental health and wellbeing programs

Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation: Turn Your Mobile Phone Into a Life Saver

23/11/2023

DoHAC: Free mental health service opens in Mount Gambier

opinion

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Organisations

View all 23/10/2023

IHACPA Annual Report 2022–23

Cancer Australia releases its 2022-23 Annual Report.

02/08/2023

Breast Cancer Network Australia: People living with metastatic breast cancer going to Canberra in call to be counted

18/07/2023

2023 AAPM National Practice Management and Workforce Salary Survey

19/06/2023

Latest FDA roundup

Payments

View all 06/09/2023

Queensland Government: 7 projects get $1 million to boost health and community services workforce

24/08/2023

Raise more revenue to fairly fund services: ACOSS response to the IGR

22/08/2023

NHMRC: Over $9 million for collaborative research projects to improve health care access and equity

14/08/2023

Historic win for junior doctors in wage theft case for unpaid overtime

07/08/2023

RACGP and AMA meeting ACT political leaders to gain clarity for GPs on payroll tax concerns

Pharma/Biotech

View all 06/12/2023

Novartis follows Pfizer, GSK, J&J and Sanofi as it launches a fresh corporate rebranding

05/12/2023

South Africa’s Aspen expands reach with $100m buy of Sandoz’s Chinese business

Roche enters into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Carmot Therapeutics

30/11/2023

ASX Health Stocks: Clarity Pharma says its drug could be effective in prostate cancer, shares jump 8pc

‘Best place we’ve ever been’: AdAlta looks to monetise lead asset in 2024

Primary Care

View all 07/12/2023

AMA President professor Steve Robson speaks to ABC Far North, Cairns: transcript

06/12/2023

More integrated funding models can save billions of dollars: AMA

04/12/2023

AMA issues One Health position statement

01/12/2023

RACGP calls on Queensland to reduce pressure on hospitals and improve the health of Queenslanders

30/11/2023

AMA submission to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee – Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2023

Public Health

View all 07/12/2023

New Australian tobacco laws ‘life-saving’: ANU expert

05/12/2023

The Conversation: Will Japanese encephalitis return this summer? What about other diseases mosquitoes spread?

Research finds long COVID can last longer than 12 months: ABC broadcast

04/12/2023

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard consultation closing soon

Resources launched to alleviate increasing shortfall in arthritis care

Research

View all 07/12/2023

Grattan Institute: Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2023

05/12/2023

Tracker: NHMRC’s latest newsletter

04/12/2023

Aegros Releases Top-Line Interim Clinical Trial Results of its COVID-19 Hyperimmune

30/11/2023

FDA investigating whether CAR-T, a treatment for cancer, can also cause lymphoma

29/11/2023

The Florey: New design blueprint to revitalise stroke rehabilitation

Rural Health

View all 07/12/2023

Public consultation on Rural Generalist Medicine recognition closing soon

28/11/2023

New Board members at National Rural Health Alliance

Celebrating the successes of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway

07/11/2023

DoHAC: Incentives and support for GPs and general practices in MM locations

03/11/2023

DoHAC: Annual report 2022–23 – Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner

Specialists

View all 03/12/2023

The RMH and WEHI announce new $100m centre for immunology

27/11/2023

Healius defends handling of raising as it blames inflation and labour costs for woes

10/11/2023

Illawarra set to host leading heart health experts

08/11/2023

76 babies will be born prematurely in Australia today and everyday: Here are some ways you can help raise awareness for families in need

07/11/2023

ACSQHC: Have your say on the draft COPD Clinical Care Standard

Sponsored

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States

View all 07/12/2023

Caring For The Carers Of People With Cancer

05/12/2023

Gold Coast HHS partners with Nuance

Tasmanian Government: Championing healthcare in our communities

03/12/2023

NT Allied Health Excellence Awards

NSW Health: Northern Rivers to welcome new nurses

Technology

View all 07/12/2023

NSW government rates every suburb’s mobile and fixed internet

06/12/2023

Wearable device that can send health data up to 24 km

05/12/2023

2024 iTnews Benchmark Awards are now open

03/12/2023

Services Australia vets customer data after Brisbane medical group breach

Fujitsu partnership to break new ground in AI

Tenders

View all 07/12/2023

Tender: Advanced Trainee Representative on Paediatrics and Child Health Divisional Clinical Examination Committee

Tender: Compensable Health and Medicine Unit

06/12/2023

Tender: MRFF Indigenous Health Research Fund – 2023 Indigenous Health Research Grant Opportunity

Tender: Supporting Recovery, Moree and Central Coast

05/12/2023

Tender: Katherine Region – Bulman, Minyerri Health Clinic – supply delivery and installation of two backup diesel generators

Women's Health

View all 04/12/2023

AIHW: National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2023

30/11/2023

Victorian Health: Improving Abortion Access Across Melbourne

29/11/2023

BCNA: Let’s Talk About Menopause (and Breast Cancer)

23/11/2023

DoHAC: New Rouse Hill clinic for endometriosis and pelvic pain

17/11/2023

Eliminating Cervical Cancer in Rural and Remote Australia

Workforce

View all 05/12/2023

Fierce Healthcare’s 2023 Women of Influence

21/11/2023

Shortage in regional nuclear medicine workforce attracts new financial support

16/11/2023

Australia’s labour market remains highly segregated: UNSW report

09/11/2023

Health Workforce Queensland: Health Workforce Scholarship Program

31/10/2023

Private Healthcare Australia: Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce (Scope of Practice Review)