Doctors and Medical Professionals

The Australian Medical Association is reviewing why several top doctors and nurses have left Albury Wodonga hospital.

The number of GP home visits has declined by 85 per cent in Australia over the past three decades, which doctors say is driving vulnerable people into residential care and hospital prematurely. 

The way ADHD is diagnosed and managed is changing across the country. Here's the reason for the change and how it will work in each state and territory.

NSW Health apologises to three senior doctors at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital after a two-year confidential investigation was found by the NSW Ombudsman to be unreasonable and unfair, in the latest example of dysfunction within two key departments.

Tasmania needs more nurses, but lower wages and fewer opportunities for career growth remain barriers for enticing health workers to return to their home state.

A Queensland former doctor has been indefinitely disqualified from reapplying for registration after a tribunal found he excessively performed pap smears, breast checks and vaginal examinations on female patients.

State government spending on locum nurses continues to rapidly rise, despite repeated calls to build a more permanent workforce.

The Medical Board of Australia is appealing a tribunal decision that allowed a Ballarat doctor accused of digitally penetrating a female patient to continue working at the same clinic.

The cluster of infections at the transplant unit at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital late last year saw two people die, health bosses say.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has referred a Melbourne gynaecologist to Victoria Police, after a Four Corners investigation last night revealed extraordinary allegations. 

It was the key promise of the 2022 SA Labor campaign: fix the ramping crisis. But four years on, the state's health system continues to buckle under never ending pressure, according to those on the frontline.

With immunisation rates declining and outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles increasing, the consequences of vaccine hesitancy in Australia are becoming clearer.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation cancels a strike at one of Adelaide's largest public hospitals after securing a 2 per cent pay rise on top of a 4 per cent immediate increase in wages announced earlier this week.

After graduating six years apart at the same high school in Kalgoorlie, both James Gent and Sophie Barton are following their dream of becoming a doctor.

The South Australian government says plans from Lyell McEwin Hospital nurses to strike tomorrow have been postponed, amid an unresolved industrial dispute over pay and conditions.

Nurses and midwives at the Lyell McEwin Hospital remain set to walk off the job for 24 hours on Thursday, with the union saying the government's decision to introduce an immediate 4 per cent pay rise still falls short of expectations.

David Walshaw spent 20 years looking after the Limestone Coast's hospitals, but a fall made him realise the system was failing patients.

More than a dozen customers have come forward over concerns two Broome chemists have handed out the wrong medications.

The coroner could not definitively rule that the anaphylaxis death of 15-year-old Max McKenzie was preventable, despite identifying delays in the teen's medical treatment.

Broome nurse Rebecca Smith says a looming ban on Doctors Without Borders due to registration issues will harm the most needy patients.