Workplace Conditions

Going to an emergency department as an Aboriginal person is a profoundly more racist experience than for non-Indigenous Australians - and it could even prove fatal.

Newly-trained nurse Vanessa is fed up after less than a year in NSW's health system. She regularly cares for six patients during a shift and sometimes as

Nurses and midwives will walk off the job for 24-hours on Wednesday in the fourth such action this year over staffing and pay issues Rallies will be held across

Nurses across NSW will stop work again next week amid concerns about 'dangerous' staffing levels. Thousands of nurses will strike for 24 hours from

Frontline Queensland health staff, including doctors, health practitioners and administrative staff, have accused the state government of stalling wage talks.

A gambling addict doctor who swindled 19 people, including patients, out of almost $800,000 has been sentenced to three years in jail. Abraham Stephanson, 50,

A Facebook post showing an all-male group of NSW elite paramedic recruits has sparked an internal investigation over whether the team has a gender diversity problem.

Health professionals being investigated should have mental health support and the right to legal representation, a new advocate says. Queensland became the

Health Minister Mark Butler vows claims of billions of dollars being rorted each year from the Medicare system are being taken seriously. Mr Butler said an

Health workers who fled a remote Northern Territory community over safety fears hours before police shot and killed an Indigenous teenager believed they were being targeted

Western Sydney doctors have labelled NSW public hospitals "basically Third World" at a parliamentary inquiry into bottlenecks at emergency departments.

Nearly 6000 more Victorians will be admitted to Monash Medical Centre in Clayton every year under a proposed multimillion-dollar government hospital expansion.

A consultant at a Victorian hospital where a number of babies died raised the alarm about an extreme risk to its obstetric service, then failed to follow up, a tribunal has

Nearly half of trainee doctors working in NSW hospitals say they have made a medical mistake because they were tired from working long hours, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues

A controversial decision to rename a Melbourne hospital in honour of the Queen is the centrepiece of a $1 billion election promise. Premier Daniel Andrews says,

Some of Australia's top medicos have held an emergency summit in flood-ravaged Lismore to call for more help for local health service providers. The groups,

An "undervaluing" of general practice medicine has led to high burnout rates and a low take-up of new staff, the new head of the peak body for GPs says.

Victoria's health minister admits she was concerned after two vulnerable patients were forced to wait hours inside a makeshift tent outside the emergency department at

Exclusion zones could be set up outside Victorian hospitals following anti-vaccination demonstrations at the weekend. Premier Daniel Andrews said his government

Victorian nurses, age care workers and paramedics would be able to travel on public transport across the state for free under a new election promise. The Liberals