Aged Care & Disability Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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Capital crisis in aged care is confirmed by govt's own figures 7/7/2009

The recent release of the Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR) place allocations for 2008 reinforces the message from the aged care industry that the current system is not viable.

Aged care staff believe they are being ignored by Fed Govt 6/25/2009

Aged Care Association Australia (ACAA) has asked why the Federal Government continues to ignore the poor wages that aged care providers are forced to pay aged care staff, due to the ...

Primary Health Care Roundtable is seen as a vital opportunity 6/23/2009

Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) attended the Primary Health Care Roundtable discussion at Parliament House recently to give a professional nursing perspective in a long ...

Minister welcomes results of a new independent AIHW report 6/23/2009

Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot has welcomed the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report - Residential Aged Care in Australia 2007–08: a statistical overview.

TR 900 Bath helps with safe labour efficient lifting for patients 6/22/2009

The beauty of the TR 900 elevating bath is that it efficiently increases staff productivity and facilitates the “no lift policy” for attendants in their working environment, which ...

Emergency care crisis needs new ideas for national approach 6/18/2009

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has called for a national approach to addressing the current crisis situation within public hospital emergency departments. ...

Waiting lists to grow: 216,000 extra public hospital admissions 6/18/2009

Four times more people than predicted by Treasury may go without private health insurance as a result of changes to the private health rebate and Medicare levy surcharge, Catholic ...

Audit finds need for work to be done on health service planning 6/16/2009

Deputy Premier and Minister for Health Paul Lucas says he has instructed his Director-General to accelerate work already begun to implement recommendations into health service planning. ...

$1.25 million has been awarded to prostate cancer research 6/9/2009

New treatments to ease or even cure the most common cancer affecting Australian men are a step closer to reality with a $1.25 million grant awarded to QUT prostate cancer researcher ...

New funding support offered to help medical research happen 6/9/2009

Twenty five independent health and medical research institutes across Australia are about to receive up to $31 million to support their essential work.

NHMRC announces six new leaders in Australian health care 6/4/2009

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has announced the awarding of six 2009 NICS Fellowships to help improve the use of evidence in key areas including cardiovascular ...

Leading institute calls for better pain management at the end 5/28/2009

Despite the availability of new and effective treatments for all types of pain, including cancer pain, many people in the final stages of life still suffer preventable pain and ...

$1.5M to be given to veteran health and wellbeing projects 5/28/2009

Encouraging veterans, war widows, widowers and their families to become involved in local health and wellbeing activities, the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin, has ...

Minister sets the record straight about Govt Medicare audits 5/26/2009

Minister for Human Services, Senator Joe Ludwig, is setting the record straight on misinformation and scaremongering over the draft legislation for the Increased Medicare Compliance ...

University policy expert welcomes govt's health reforms 5/19/2009

The health initiatives announced in the Federal budget provide genuine reform, but also some re-badging of old and ineffective programs, a leading health policy expert based at The ...

Has the latest budget placed health firmly on the back burner? 5/19/2009

Major health reform seems to have been placed on the back burner in considerations of the Federal Budget, according to Tony McBride, Chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance ...

AMA says budget will do nothing to satisfy vital health needs 5/14/2009

The AMA says tonight’s budget does nothing to provide Australians with confidence that their health needs will be met in the face of the recession. There is nothing to cushion ...

New partnership and era starts in health and hospital reform 5/14/2009

In the 2009-10 Budget, the Rudd Government is delivering a record $64 billion boost to health and hospital funding to drive vital reform in the nation’s health and hospital system.

CSIRO researchers say that early detection of dementia is key 5/12/2009

CSIRO recognises the importance of studies like the report Access Economics recently released; “Making Choices – Future Dementia Care: Projections, Problems and Preferences”, for it ...

Numbers of Indigenous GPs, nurses,health students all rising 5/7/2009

In recent years there have been increases in the number of Indigenous medical practitioners, Indigenous registered nurses, Indigenous students enrolled in health courses and Indigenous ...

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