Home care presents unique challenges for emergency planning. An in-home care provider's CEO outlines how technology, local knowledge and proactive care can help. [ + ]

Health and aged care is under pressure to deliver high-quality care with short-staffed teams. Here's how international talent mobility may be able to help. [ + ]

DNA samples from 95 mobiles of Aust and UAE hospital workers found, on average, 3.62 out of 10 species of bacteria associated with the highest global mortality rates. [ + ]

A global clinical trial involving more than 150 hospitals has challenged the position of flucloxacillin as the default treatment for MSSA and PSSA infections. [ + ]

With the emergence of the non-clinical, community-led safe spaces model, Australia's approach to suicide prevention is changing. [ + ]

Australian College of Nursing Acting CEO Dr Zachary Byfield outlines how nurses and current nursing initiatives can ease Australia's healthcare pressures. [ + ]

Claire de Carteret, Managing Director, APAC at Gallup, sets out how effective, supportive management may help address burnout and psychosocial hazards in hospitals. [ + ]

Developed and endorsed by 77 healthcare experts and six consumers with lived experience, UQ researchers have published a national frailty framework. [ + ]

Investing in a single, cloud-based human capital management platform can, this author argues, help boost efficiency, visibility and employee experience in aged care. [ + ]

For hospitals and healthcare facilities, cleaning is a patient-safety issue with evolving health, safety, sustainability and environmental standards. [ + ]

Double-checking medications requires two nurses to verify a dose before administration. Widely viewed as a critical safeguard, the evidence tells a different story. [ + ]

A home care provider's Palliative Care Project Lead sets out why the Support at Home End-of-Life Pathway matters and best practice perspectives on delivering it. [ + ]

While the potential of AI is being recognised across health care, there are uniquely human 'soft skills', this author believes, AI will never be able to replace. [ + ]

Declan Hofbauer is Manager of The Royal Melbourne Hospital's Injury Management Team — a recent winner in the WorkSafe Awards. Here's a day in his life. [ + ]

Australia's first Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard will help health services develop timely, appropriate and standardised care approaches that will save lives. [ + ]