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• Creating Safer and More Supportive Healthcare Environments Without Increasing Operational Burden 02-06-2026

  Safety in healthcare environments has become a leading priority for operators and management across Australia. The large flow of visitors through hospitals and the constant need for observational care in specialist units is time intensive and places

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• Dentists who see signs of DV given new tools to respond 02-06-2026

  Dentists who notice their patients may be experiencing domestic violence will have better guidance on how best to respond as advocates say the profession is uniquely positioned to identify abuse. A first-of-its-kind legal guide has been released a

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• 'Game-changing' diabetes treatment approved 02-06-2026

  Pricking the skin with insulin syringes could be a thing of the past for more than 145,000 Australians living with type 1 diabetes due to the approval of a breakthrough treatment. Heralded as the most important innovation since insulin was discove

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• Climate change risks billions in roads, hospitals bills 01-06-2026

  Tens of billions of dollars worth of roads, rail, hospitals and energy assets in one state alone are at risk of damage or destruction from climate change-fuelled extreme weather. In what has been billed as an Australian first, Victoria's indep

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• 'Numbers increasing': border changes flagged for Ebola 01-06-2026

  Travellers from West Africa could soon face additional screening for the deadly Ebola virus. The country's chief health officers met on Monday to consider the next steps in combating a strain of Ebola sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo

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• NT:'This is serious': respiratory disease outbreak spreads 01-06-2026

  One of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks has spread across three states amid fears the respiratory disease has claimed a life in an outback community. The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System reports 133 notifications of the di

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• Two dead in outback town from mosquito-borne virus 01-06-2026

  Two deaths from a mosquito-borne virus in an outback town have prompted a warning for people to cover up and use insect repellent. Northern Territory health authorities on Tuesday confirmed two people had died from Murray Valley encephalitis, a ra

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• Elderly man's fatal overdose after pharmacy error 01-06-2026

  An elderly vision-impaired man who was given medication from an incorrectly labelled pill organiser subsequently died from a drug overdose, an inquest has heard. South Australian coroner Emma Roper is inquiring into the death of Pelayo Del Carmen

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• Deadly disease outbreak linked to waning vaccinations 01-06-2026

  A dip in vaccination rates has been blamed for one of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks as the rare respiratory disease continues to spread. Hundreds of cases spanning three states and a territory have been reported amid fears the highly

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• A 10-hour trip for a blood test amid rural health gaps 01-06-2026

  A rural mother has to travel six hours interstate every fortnight as she expands her family, an emotional quest that has likely cost her more than $100,000. Sophie Fletcher, a farmer and mother-of-two from Walcha, in northern NSW, has also taken s

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