Health Policy
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Qld kicks off health practitioner laws AAP - 12-05-2022
Health practitioners will be more closely scrutinised and those who pose a risk to community health and safety face new punishments under proposed Queensland laws, set to
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No quick ramping fix amid WA health spend AAP - 03-05-2022
Western Australia's government will pour a further $252 million into emergency departments amid warnings there is no quick fix to near-record ambulance ramping.
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DNA donation law passes parliament AAP - 31-03-2022
Federal parliament has legalised partial DNA donations capable of stopping deadly mitochondrial disease in babies. The laws have been labelled as game changing,
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Doctors and nurses worldwide point to roadmap to future-proof healthcare Charlotte Mitchell - 22-03-2022
Thousands of doctors and nurses from across the globe have revealed exactly what it will take to fill gaps and future-proof today’s healthcare system, in a new report
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Record private health sign-up to beat wait AAP - 06-03-2022
Australians are signing up to private health insurance in record numbers to avoid hospital waiting lists. Six consecutive quarters of membership growth has
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SA doctors call for more health funding AAP - 25-02-2022
South Australia's doctors have called for major investment to improve a health "system in crisis", urging voters to carefully scrutinise promises from political
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NSW's $4 billion spend on pandemic health AAP - 23-02-2022
In the past two years the NSW government has committed more than $4 billion to the state's health system to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SA Labor pledges 300 more nurses AAP - 23-02-2022
Labor has pledged to recruit 300 more nurses for South Australian hospitals if the party wins the March state election. The promise includes 212 extra staff
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Victoria to lift code brown health alert AAP - 13-02-2022
Elective surgery will scale up again in Victoria as the state lifts its code brown pandemic alert for the health system. The unprecedented alert was issued
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Nth Qld pharmacy trial has doctors worried AAP - 11-02-2022
Giving pharmacists the power to diagnose and treat a wider range of conditions is not the answer to health shortages in regional Queensland, doctors say. A
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Blood donor COVID recovery wait time cut AAP - 19-01-2022
Australians who recover from a bout of COVID-19 will only need to wait seven days to give blood under a new policy change amid the Omicron wave. With more than
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Queensland rules out home stay for car arrivals AAP - 04-11-2021
Queensland has ruled out home quarantine for people
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NSW government will start vax passport trials on October AAP - 22-09-2021
The NSW government will pilot a "vaccination passport" on the Service NSW app from October 6, meaning it may not be operational when restrictions are eased.
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Australia will begin to issue vaccine passports AAP - 08-09-2021
The federal government will begin rolling out vaccine certificates designed to allow international travel from October, ahead of borders opening.
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Qld not-for-profit plea on assisted dying AAP - 12-08-2021
A Qld not-for-profit healthcare provider wants the state's assisted
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Longer wait times at NSW hospitals AAP - 16-06-2021
The performance of NSW hospitals is down in several key measures, new figures show, despite the number of people seeking care remaining stable.
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AMA urged governments to give doctors more say in allocating health funding AAP - 09-06-2021
Australian Medical Association president Omar Khorshid has urged governments to learn from the pandemic and give doctors more say in allocating health funding.
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The changes under Medicare will create chaos for patients AAP - 07-06-2021
The Australian Medical Association believes changes to Medicare rebates for some private surgery procedures risk leaving patients out of pocket.
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Northern Territory has new tough COVID rules for returned Aussies AAP - 01-06-2021
People in the Northern Territory who've returned from overseas will now have to be re-tested for COVID-19 after they complete and leave quarantine.
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