Making surgery safer with an Australian-first perioperative medicines resource
26 May, 2025 | Supplied by: Advanced Pharmacy AustraliaAdvanced Pharmacy Australia is proud to lead the development of Australia's first comprehensive Perioperative Medicines Resource.
MULTIGATE ProSeries Surgical Gowns
21 May, 2025 | Supplied by: MULTIGATE Medical ProductsThe MULTIGATE ProSeries surgical gown range has been designed to make gown selection simpler, faster and more intuitive.
Anaesthetic reporting tool reveals operating room risks
13 May, 2025 | Supplied by: Australian and New Zealand College of AnaesthetistsAn online reporting tool available to all ANZ anaesthetic departments enables frontline clinicians to report and analyse potential risks anonymously.
Victoria's Q3 median ED wait times the lowest on record
09 May, 2025Victoria's quarter three performance data (January–March) has shown improvement across the health system, with ED wait times the lowest on record.
'Enhanced cleaning' cuts hospital-acquired infections by one-third
09 May, 2025 | Supplied by: Monash UniversityAustralian researchers who introduced so-called 'enhanced cleaning' measures onto several NSW hospital wards found hospital-acquired infections dropped by about one-third.
Improving success rates: lactic acid in IVF
06 May, 2025 by Professor David Gardner AM*The co-author of research published in Biomolecules explains how the metabolism of the embryo could be a major component determining the success of implantation in IVF.
Irregularities in a clinician's cases prompt 15-month lookback
06 May, 2025St Vincent's Hospital Sydney has detailed a 15-month lookback review — prompted by irregularities in a clinician's cases in its cancer genetics service.
Two researchers receive $899,000 in cardiovascular funding
05 May, 2025In heart-related news this Heart Week (5–11 May), two University of Newcastle researchers have been awarded $899,000 in cardiovascular funding.
Hep C point-of-care test helps marginalised populations
30 April, 2025 | Supplied by: Kirby InstituteA program using diagnostic technologies at the 'point of care' is helping combat hepatitis C among marginalised or remotely located population groups.
Voluntary assisted dying pharmacy practice update released
29 April, 2025To support compassionate, compliant end-of-life care, Advanced Pharmacy Australia has released a voluntary assisted dying practice update for pharmacist practitioners.
Stigma around lung disease and cancer must go
24 April, 2025 by Mark Brooke, Chief Executive Officer of Lung Foundation Australia | Supplied by: Lung Foundation AustraliaData from Lung Foundation Australia's Lived Experience Survey has showed the debilitating effect stigma has on patients. Stigma around lung disease and cancer must go.
Report card shows "alarming" levels of ramping
22 April, 2025Ambulance ramping in some states is still double what it was five years ago, the Australian Medical Association's Ambulance Ramping Report Card 2025 reveals.
NSW commits additional $2.8m for paediatric palliative care
22 April, 2025The NSW Government has committed an additional $2.8 million to support a range of initiatives to enhance paediatric palliative respite and end of life care.
High-five for a sustainable path to better hand hygiene
21 April, 2025 by Conjoint Professor Carolyn Hullick FACEM* | Supplied by: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health CareAhead of World Hand Hygiene Day, an emergency physician explains why hand hygiene is needed all the time, and gloves at the right time, to reduce unnecessary waste.
Healthscope issues statement on three hospital patient deaths
15 April, 2025Healthscope has issued a statement outlining its response to the deaths of three of its hospitals' patients: Joe Massa, Antoinette O'Brien and James Tsindos.
