Truly sustainable healthcare is more than just green

Green is a given on Brookfield Multiplex projects. But we look beyond green credentials to ensure our projects are truly sustainable and drive long-term financial and social gains alongside environmental outcomes.

Are you obliged to take the night shift?

Night duty: it’s the easiest shift, right? No one gets up fifty times to go to the bathroom. No one rings the bell. No doctors come through, and patients never get sick and need care. Night shift is a controversial part of nursing. If you’ve never worked it, you have no idea what it’s like. If you have – and most have – you know it is not as easy as everyone makes it sound. In fact, it is probably the most difficult shift because you are constantly fighting the need for sleep and still making clinical decisions.

How Australians Die: cause #1 - CVD and stroke

This is the first in the How Australians Die series that focuses on the country’s top five causes of death and how we can drive down rates of these illnesses. 

It’s been a very tough thing to care about

“I’ve been on a mission for seventeen years. It’s my holy grail. I’m trying to cure a brain tumor called DIPG that kills 100 percent of the children who have it. It only affects 200 kids a year so it’s never gotten much attention. But if you saw a child die from DIPG, you’d understand why I care so much. It’s awful. It’s just awful.

Lifesaving app is in the (doctor's) bag

A new smartphone app—designed to support Australian health professionals during emergencies—has been officially launched by Australian Prescriber and NPS MedicineWise.

Rivals Join Forces To Woo Big Pharma

Traditional rivals Monash and Melbourne Universities are collaborating to create a new company that will market and sell medicines developed by the institutions to pharmaceutical companies, reinvesting any profit into research.

A Stethoscope Sensor For Knees Detects Injury

Those crackling sounds of knees in the morning may sound scary, but there’s constant noise coming out of moving joints that we just don’t hear. Normal sounds may indicate healthy knees while unusual ones may point to something not quite right. Researchers at Georgia Tech are now investigating a sort of stethoscope for the knees, consisting of microphones and a film-based vibration sensor, stuck to the leg that listen for and interpret the sounds coming from within.

Cost-Effective Medicines For All People In All Places

Experts are calling for a national register of cost-effective medicines for public hospitals as medical advances push up the cost of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Top 6 causes of preventable death and injury

Every code blue deserves a figurative autopsy to bolster prevention of the next. We are pretty good at the prevention of deep vein thrombosis [DVT], pulmonary embolism [PE], and line infections. We do some things well like faithfully reciting our "time-outs"; maybe that keeps us from operating on the wrong limb or the wrong patient, but there are old complications emerging that can spell disaster for some. Here are Melissa Walton-Shirley's top six easily preventable causes of patient death and demise in 2016.

Compassion Fatigue: The Cost Of Caring

Health and social workers often choose their profession because they want to help people. But, according to Amanda Lambros, from Curtin University, seeing trauma and suffering on a regular basis can have a deep impact on these workers. “Compassion fatigue” is a response to the stress of caring for people at times of crisis and is often referred to as the cost of caring.

Dealing with Drug-seeking

Doctors need to be aware of behaviours that may indicate patients are drug seeking, such as doctor shopping or asking for drugs by name, and should have practice policies in place to help them say 'no', according to an Australian expert. The authors say there is strong evidence in Australia of increasing harms from prescription drugs of dependence including deaths from overdose. The authors highlight signs of drug-seeking to watch for and point out that dependency on prescription drugs may occur at any age, within any cultural group, and across any educational class.

20% Of Australians Take More Than 10 Medicines

Modular Construction – The Way Forward For Healthcare

With Ausco Modular’s extensive network across Australia and longstanding history of providing quality made-to-order modular buildings, it’s worthwhile considering Ausco Modular for your next healthcare build.

Simply Better Solutions: Reliable, Consistent And Versatile.

NESTLÉ Docello® Protein Enriched Dessert Mixes have been specifically developed to meet menu standards for hospitals and aged care1, offering a versatile and easy to prepare, great-tasting addition to your menu range. But more importantly, they are packed with benefits to provide a vital source of protein and calcium in every serve when prepared as directed.

60% of road trauma patients have a history

An Australian-first study from Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) has found a link between poor traffic records and road trauma.