The Opposition is maintaining pressure on the Western Australian Government to address the shortage of nurses in the regions. Figures released by Health Minister Jim McGinty show the mid-west shires of Northampton, Mullewa and Three Springs are each short of two nurses.
 
Opposition health spokesman Kim Hames says the Government needs to provide incentives to attract […]

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The Western Australian Government has confirmed the Ravensthorpe Hospital, in the south, will have to scale back its hours of operation due to a serious shortage of nurses. From December 10, the hospital will only open between 8:00am AWDT and 8:00pm. 
Health Minister Jim McGinty says the department has been unable to recruit enough nurses to operate […]

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General Practice and Primary Health Care NT says it hopes the Indigenous intervention will result in more doctors and nurses willing to work in the Territory.
 
The group’s Jim Thurley says he’s spoken to several doctors and nurses involved in the intervention who’ve expressed interest in returning. Dr Thurley says he hopes they will ease the […]

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GPs and nurses in UK have been invited to use a website launched this week by a DoH arms-length agency to offer practical resources and information about self care. The NHS Working in Partnership Programme (WiPP) has called it the ‘world’s first interactive, online self care resource and networking organisation’.
‘In light of the recent dire […]

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“The proposal smacked of desperation in the face of midwife shortages, and was only ever going to be a ‘band-aid’ approach to the problem. It may have also had the unintended consequence of providing an inappropriate incentive for some women to leave hospital earlier than they should have.”
Clinical factors, not monetary rewards, should be the […]

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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars and experts said in a report released today.  So far, the global health debate has focused on lowering prices for AIDS drugs and […]

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Staying ahead requires daily diligence when it comes to maintaining nursing staff numbers during a time when there is a nationwide shortage of the health care providers.  
And it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing predicts that the current nursing shortage will grow to about 340,000 […]

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As the world marks World AIDS Day 2007 on 1 December, a huge boost in the numbers of health workers is urgently needed as millions of HIV and AIDS patients continue to be left without proper care, according to international aid agency Oxfam. 
Oxfam is working closely with hundreds of partners in more than 20 countries […]

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Winston-Salem, NC - Free tuition, money to live on and a guaranteed job after graduation. That’s the deal Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is offering you to change careers and become a nurse. A partnership between the hospital and Winston-Salem State University has been renewed for another five years. “I’ve always wanted to be […]

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As more physicians move toward specialties and away from general care, there is a troubling lack of providers in this critical health-care sector. The need is even more urgent in light of the growing number of Americans who are suffering from chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension and require long-term disease treatment and […]

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