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Australasian College of Emergency Medicine president-elect Stephen Gourley says a complete rethink of the way health services are funded is needed to address the sector's crisis.

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Enticing trained nurses back to work, recruiting international professionals and hiring university students are part of an immediate approach to fill vacancies within health care.

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New federal Health Minister Mark Butler says primary care is “in worse shape than it’s been in the entire Medicare era” and has made it his top health priority.

Doctors say staff shortages and unsustainable funding arrangements are making it harder for patients to receive the care they need.

People who lost their homes during flooding in the NSW Northern Rivers will have to wait months to find out if they qualify for the government buyback scheme.

The former Morrison government's planning for Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout was not "timely", it underestimated how difficult it would be to protect aged care and disability residents and failed to adequately engage with the states and territories before the rollout began, a damning review has found.

National audit report on vaccine rollout found planning ‘was not timely’ and distribution to priority populations had not ‘met targets’