From delivering over 500K vaccinations to disability and aged-care residents to achieving over five million completions for its online COVID-19 training platform for the Department of Health, global healthcare provider Aspen Medical has played a key role in Australia's pandemic response. [ + ]

Workforce has been a perennial problem for the aged-care sector for too long. [ + ]

Can knowing too much harm us? When it comes to medicine, in some cases, yes, absolutely. [ + ]

Polypharmacy affects about one million older people, aged over 70 years, in Australia and as the population ages and the number of people living with multiple health conditions rises, the rates are set to increase. [ + ]

Aged care has received more than its fair share of bad press in recent years, owing largely to revelations from the Royal Commission (RC) into Aged Care Quality and Safety. [ + ]

Black Dog Institute (BDI) is seeing an increase in support for health professionals since Omicron, with the service recording the highest user numbers from health professionals in the last 5 months. [ + ]

All children, regardless of their age, gender, ability, race or sexual orientation, have the right to be safe and feel safe. [ + ]

COVID-19 has highlighted the vital importance of clinical trials for drug and vaccine development, but it has also forced Australia's pharmaceutical and healthcare companies to completely redesign how these trials are run. [ + ]

Victorian aged-care provider Luson recently opened its state-of-the-art aged-care residence, Bloom, in Clyde North. [ + ]

Melbourne mental health facility The Victoria Clinic is in the process of a $50 million upgrade that will vastly expand its service offering. [ + ]

Virtual care adoption accelerated dramatically in Australia in the wake of COVID-19. This was driven by the need to minimise the risk of the virus spreading, free up bed capacity for acutely unwell patients, and preserve personal protective equipment (PPE). [ + ]

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid rate, what was once the stuff of science fiction is now a daily reality for healthcare practitioners across a wide range of fields. [ + ]

During COVID-19 lockdowns across the world we saw many new examples of mobile technology used within the health sector, including numerous people using telehealth for the first time. [ + ]

As Australia emerges from lockdown and our cities begin to reopen, the excitement on the city streets is palpable. However, the same cannot be said for our hospital wards. [ + ]

Seventeen Australians have been appointed to the NACAC to provide expert advice on aged-care issues and the implementation of the $17.7 billion reform agenda. [ + ]