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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