GOVERNMENT leaders are being warned not to squander the millions of dollars set aside for indigenous health on state and commonwealth...

LOCAL indigenous children have been working on their art to say no to smoking, through workshops with local indigenous health worker Gordon Browning. The results of these workshops will be shown in an exhibition at the Gympie Regional Gallery from June 30 to July...

Australias Chief Commonwealth Nurse, Rosemary Bryant, has been elected President of the International Council of Nurses.

FOUR rural hospitals will receive funding for dedicated acute-care mental health beds. Hospitals in Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Berri and Mt Gambier have been chosen as locations for four treatment centres to house people who have been detained for up to seven days under the...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called for the Federal Government to make major changes to the way Australia's health system is funded.

These scholarships are particularly significant in 2009 as our country seeks to close the gap in health and education for indigenous Australians RCNA spokeswoman Marg McLeod At least 70 indigenous students looking to study health at an undergraduate university or at TAFE could benefit from a new...

A FEDERAL Government scheme which forces medical students to repay up to $110,000 in fees if they do not work in a rural or remote area once qualified is exploitative and will not solve the dire rural workforce shortage, doctors' groups...

COUNTRY general practitioners have ended their decade-long support of federal rules requiring overseas trained doctors to work for up to 10 years in the bush, saying the experiment has failed rural...

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says legislation to give midwives and nurse practitioners a greater role in maternity care will improve services for...

The Australian Medical Association is warning there will be "many deaths" in remote Indigenous communities if governments do not take a more proactive approach to dealing with swine...

RURAL health was one of the big winners from the Prime Minister's cabinet reshuffle last week, with a new portfolio created specifically to focus on major systemic and workforce issues in country...

FORMER opposition leader Brendan Nelson wants Canberra to take over public hospitals, warning that current arrangements cannot meet public expectations of the health...

The Federal Government says a new incentive program to recruit health practitioners to the bush will be rolled out by the middle of next year. The Rural Doctors Association has called for the scrapping of rules forcing overseas doctors to work in areas of shortages, saying that's caused an over-reliance on..

The determined campaign by the local community in small-town Goodooga has forced a backdown by GWAHS over plans to pan the local health...

Country students and communities gain from scholarships 51 students from rural and regional South Australia have won scholarships totaling more than...

The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says it is possible to restore the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory, while retaining measures that only apply to Aboriginal...

, Health care services for the terminally ill will be made available to patients in all rural regions of WA as part of a $14 million project to improve palliative care services across the State, the Government has...

Published in Australian Doctor 3 October 2008 THE Federal Government has backtracked on a pledge to axe almost $30 million from a program designed to encourage junior doctors into general...

THE Federal Governments decision to replace the RRMA system with a new remoteness classi fication will drive doctors from small country towns, rural doctors...

More than 900 delegates are meeting in Cairns over four days to consider ways of improving the health of people who live in rural and remote Australia.