More than 1,600 graduate nurses will not ease the pressure on NSW public hospitals but simply place a burden on existing staff, the opposition says.The NSW government has announced a record 1,618 registered nurses will enter the public health system from January 14 after graduating from university.The largest group of new graduates, 128, will go […]

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Montrose County Court Judge John Mitchel sentenced a Delta woman, Theanna Sparrow, to two years supervised probation and 30 days in jail for the practice of midwifery without a license.District Attorney Myrl Serra said Sparrow had been warned twice before not to practice as a midwife and was present at a birth in December 2006 […]

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Devolution has created four different health systems in Britain with care becoming more of a postcode lottery than ever, one of the most influential figures in the NHS has said.The English get the worst deal, campaigners warned, as variations in care produce ‘envy’ amongst patients.England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were setting different priorities for […]

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Hundreds of foreign nursing students are out of pocket more than $5000 and in limbo after accreditation lapsed for Brisbane’s Shafston College and doubts were raised as to whether it would be reinstated.Shafston Nursing admitted yesterday it would not be offering places for the course, which was due to start next month. The future for […]

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US firm CureOnTour will invest RM200 million in the next five years to promote medical tourism in Malaysia and some other English-speaking countries, chairman and chief executive officer Bernhard Schutte said.
The investment could be more, he added, in view of the fact that the medical tourism business is valued at US20 billion currently and is […]

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‘Mummy jobs’, in which cosmetic surgeons set out to erase all evidence of childbirth from a woman’s body, are already big business in the US. Now they are catching on here. Viv Groskop reports on a disturbing trend - and asks three mothers how they really feel about their post-baby bodies 
Mummy jobs are the next […]

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The Department of Health is encouraging pregnant and breastfeeding women to boost their intake of vitamin D in the darker winter months. Healthcare professionals say more children than ever are presenting with vitamin D deficiency which can cause seizures and rickets.
Whilst vitamin D deficiency is common among the white population, many cases of rickets in […]

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Health care professionals hope a new nursing program at historically black Morgan State University will help alleviate the state’s nursing shortage, particularly the dearth of black nurses.“Diversity in nursing is a really serious problem,” said Kathleen Galbraith, director of Morgan’s new nursing program. “African-Americans are extremely under-represented.” The key to fixing Maryland’s nursing shortage — […]

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Susan Antosh isn’t booking any holidays this spring.Instead, the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) president will be spending her days preparing for negotiations with the province’s 7,700-member nurses’ union and three of the province’s major health-care unions representing 25,000 workers.“Four of the major contracts are completed at the end of March 2008 — that […]

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A remote Northern Territory health service says the Commonwealth intervention in Aboriginal communities has made it more difficult to attract and keep permanent medical staff.The Pintubi Homelands Health Service at Kintore says it will be using locum doctors and nurses to keep the clinic open until permanent staff start in mid-February.Service administrator Jeff Hulcombe says […]

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