Autism interventions published in landmark report
13 November, 2020Autism CRC has published a landmark report, detailing the best available high-quality evidence about interventions for children on the autism spectrum aged up to 12 years.
Double win for Australian Mental Health Prize
10 November, 2020Scientia Professor Gordon Parker and Professor Helen Milroy have been announced as dual winners of the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize.
Health collaboration crucial for the best care of older Australians
06 November, 2020 by Sean Rooney, CEO, Leading Age Services AustraliaThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the crucial relationship between aged care, hospitals, general practice, ambulance services and the whole health system.
Exhaustion leaves Qld junior doctors fearing mistakes
04 November, 2020Nearly half of Queensland's trainee doctors are worried they will make a clinical mistake because they are exhausted from working excessively long hours.
The Qld not-for-profit on a mission to open sport to all
02 November, 2020Queensland not-for-profit Sporting Wheelies has made active living accessible to all, by enabling team sports and providing rehabilitation for those living with physical disabilities.
COVID-19 and the vulnerability of remote Indigenous communities
30 October, 2020 by Dr Gabrielle O’Kane, CEO, National Rural Health AllianceDr Gabrielle O'Kane looks at why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people living in remote communities are at greater risk of COVID-19.
Include pharmacists in aged-care settings, recommendations say
29 October, 2020SHPA has welcomed the patient safety measures that have emerged from the later stages of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
Program set to improve medication access for Indigenous Australians
27 October, 2020Metro North Hospital and Health Service is launching a pharmaceutical program that will allow greater access to medications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients visiting its facilities.
The Budget: where's the money going for allied health?
21 October, 2020 by Ed Johnson, Clinical Innovation Officer at UmboThere is more work to do in acknowledging and sufficiently supporting our rural allied health services into the future.
HESTA Excellence Awards: finalists revealed
21 October, 2020Twenty-four organisations and teams working in disability, allied health, aged care and community services have been revealed as finalists for HESTA Excellence Awards.
LASA session to explore aged-care design
19 October, 2020Designing for community, connection and sense of place shows how progressive design helps create vibrant, integrated seniors' communities.
Professor Roianne West: on a mission to achieve equity in our health system
16 October, 2020 by Jane AllmanWhat would you say if someone told you that racism is embedded in Australia's healthcare system, and that the system itself was perpetuating inequities?
Osteoarthritis discovery could slash health bill
16 October, 2020University of South Australia researchers are looking for a new biomarker for osteoarthritis, a condition that affects more than two million Australians.
SPC strategically invests in The Kuisine Company
12 October, 2020At full rollout, the contract will require the provision of nine million meals per annum to NSW hospitals.
The rising cost of workplace mental health injuries
12 October, 2020An Allianz report reveals that the cost of workers compensation claims relating to mental health has increased by 80%.
