2025 Climate and Health in Our Hands – Our top five WINS
As part of our 2025 stocktake, we’re so proud of our collective wins that shifted practice, policy and representation of nurses, midwives and carers in the climate and health space. This work came from the ground up, from nurses, midwives and carers! We spoke with healthcare workers, cross-checked evidence, linked teams across states, and built […]
Nominate Australia’s best nurses and midwives
Nurse Practitioner Sonja Elia, who works in immunisation at Austin Health, talks about her career and specialty.
Modernising My Health Record: Improved access to pathology and diagnostic imaging results
Australia is taking significant strides in modernising its healthcare system with My Health Record. This move is part of a broader effort to ensure better and faster access to health information for all Australians. In February this year, legislation was passed to provide a framework for sharing information with My Health Record by default. This […]
Landmark reforms expand scope of practice for ACT nurse practitioners
Proposed new legislation will strengthen the role of nurse practitioners in the Australian Capital Territory enabling them to certify cause of death certificates. New legislation has been introduced to give nurse practitioners (NPs), endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), the legal practice authority to issue cause of death certificates and witness non-written health directions. The Nurse […]
Midwifery in Motion: Professional Indemnity Insurance for Intrapartum Care
From July 1, 2025, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing introduced a professional indemnity insurance (PII) product for midwives providing intrapartum care. This insurance is available under the Midwife Professional Indemnity Scheme or MPIS and results in a PII product becoming available for all aspects of private midwifery care. Alongside this change to the […]
My Aged Care failing older Australians: Inspector-General report
A significant number of older Australians struggle to navigate My Aged Care, leaving them unable to access the support they need, when they need it. My Aged Care is poorly understood, insufficiently promoted, onerously complex to navigate and not appropriately tailored to the needs of the whole of the target population, a scathing report by […]
Nurse-led support needed for men undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer
Tailored, nurse-led support for men undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer is urgently needed, according to a new study. Men with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also known as hormone therapy, are calling for greater education and more personalised, ongoing support to manage the treatment’s often debilitating side effects, according to a new […]
Australian study explores sexual dysfunction in women at midlife
Almost 50% of Australian women in midlife have poor sexual wellbeing, including a doubling of the likelihood of desire and arousal dysfunction in early perimenopause. There has been substantial uncertainty regarding the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) at midlife in women aged 40-69 years. A Monash University-led study believed to be the largest of […]
A new voice for nursing
The Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH) has welcomed a new nursing representative to its Editorial Advisory Committee, stepping into the role previously held by long-serving member Dr Helen Calabretto – a move that reflects AMH’s continuing support for the evolving needs of nurses. For nearly 30 years, the Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH) has been an important […]
Q&A with Immunisation Nurse Practitioner, Sonja Elia
Nurse Practitioner Sonja Elia, who works in immunisation at Austin Health, talks about her career and specialty.