Articles
One of the unsung heroes
When 10-year-old Taylor walked into the Queensland Children's Hospital with a broken thumb he was full of apprehension. [ + ]
The role of telehealth in modern health care
In recent years teleconsultations have played a growing role in the delivery of healthcare and support services across Australia. [ + ]
The safety fallout of worker fatigue in health care
For as long as Consultant Emergency Physician Dr Stephen Parnis can remember, he has begun each shift on his various emergency wards wondering how many workers will be present. [ + ]
How this hospital halved its code blacks
It used to be a familiar scene for Emergency Department Director Prof. Paul Preisz. A psychiatric or drug-affected patient being ferried to and from departments. [ + ]
A Day in the Life: Leanne Northrop, an Aged Care Nurse Practitioner
Leanne Northrop is a Nurse Practitioner at Peninsula Villages, an aged-care facility on the Central Coast, New South Wales. [ + ]
Misleading VPR reforms will restrict equitable access to health care
From July this year, Australia's MBS telehealth system is going to change once again, and this comes after two years of constantly evolving rules and regulations regarding the delivery of healthcare services in this country. [ + ]
Opinion: Why housing should be a health issue this election
Successive federal and state governments have abandoned families to housing market forces — placing many in the situation of being unable to afford home ownership or living in housing stress. [ + ]
In Conversation with Anne Woollett
Melbourne-based Anne Woollett is leading an Australian-first pilot aimed at providing equitable access to clinical trials for patients in regional areas. [ + ]
New mental health unit opens at Blacktown Hospital
The Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Service, with a modern therapeutic space ensuring people can recover in a calm, healing environment, has officially opened at Blacktown Hospital. [ + ]
Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform
The 2022 budget is an election-year budget. So stakeholders have been pushing their wheelbarrows up the hill to Parliament House to lobby for extra largesse to flow their way. [ + ]
Cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility
Health care continues to become increasingly digitised with an ever-expanding range of infrastructure options, technology platforms and devices being implemented and accessed both internally and externally by hospitals and healthcare organisations. [ + ]
Malnutrition: the silent killer in aged care
It's been one year since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety handed down its report identifying 'food and nutrition' as an area for immediate attention in the ailing industry. [ + ]
Remote health monitoring — have we learnt our lessons?
If we ever needed proof that our healthcare systems have a sustainability problem, the pandemic provided it. [ + ]
Hospital pharmacists' role in COVID-19 treatments
The introduction of oral antiviral treatments calls on the expertise and services of hospital pharmacists as we progress towards the endemic stage of this pandemic. [ + ]
The road to net zero emissions in health care
Health care will face substantial challenges transitioning to a net zero future, but those challenges must be faced sooner rather than later. [ + ]
