Personal Protective Equipment

The Australian healthcare system is held in high regard internationally, scoring well on access, equity and outcomes. Although no system is perfect, until now there has been a general assumption that if you need care in Australia, particularly emergency care, you will get it. So it is shocking to read that intensive care beds are full, that there is trouble recruiting the highly skilled doctors and nurses needed to…

<p>A Melbourne nurse has revealed the heartbreaking toll the Covid-19 pandemic has had not only on herself, but her colleagues as she pleads with Covid-deniers to get vaccinated.</p>

Ensuring your employees have correct face mask protection is crucial to avoiding legal issues and keeping your staff and customers safe.

<p>A teenager who fired a shotgun blast into his drug-affected neighbour&rsquo;s chest at point blank range during a fatal altercation over a barking dog has been found not guilty of murder after a judge found he was acting in self defence.</p>

The patient had no symptoms, and left the hospital before the positive result came back.

Instead of facing an immediate crisis, Victoria's hospital system is confronting a challenging new normal that could last for months or years.

Maritime Union of Australia members employed by Qube marked 40 days of industrial action for health and safety provisions in their workplace agreement. Alex Salmon reports.

Most states in Australia have a hospital in the home service allowing patients to receive nursing care, allied health care and medical care in their own home.

The ABC asked healthcare workers across the country to talk to us about their experiences in the system. The are their stories.

Victorian hospitals are preparing for another wave of seriously ill coronavirus patients, with staff shortages, workforce burnout and overrun emergency departments fuelling a crisis across the state's public health system.

As New Zealand's Covid-19 vaccine rollout hits high gear, lawyer Kimberly Jarvis asks whether employers can require employees to get vaccinated....

With an abundance of plastic waste but a scarcity of personal protective equipment (PPE), Thailand is turning trash into treasure by upcycling bottles into protective clothing for people at risk of coronavirus infection.

Workers are being put in harm's way and the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union and Living Incomes for Everyone want that to change. Isaac Nellist reports.

Victorian intensive care specialists are gauging how many beds could be set up at short notice if the state's Delta outbreak explodes. It's a difficult balancing act involving staff fatigue and patients who will be forced to miss out on life-changing treatment.

I'm only three years into a career I love and I'm exhausted, burnt out and disappointed. And I'm not the only one.

Michelle Dowd, a nurse manager at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney's south-west, reveals the tragic realities of families where one or more members have contracted COVID-19.

SA's Chief Public Health Officer says the Royal Adelaide Hospital will accept COVID-positive patients transferred from Broken Hill as standard procedure as case numbers in the region continue to rise.

An interesting new study describes a novel aerosol box design that has been produced and tested to prevent airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Staff at the $5 billion PPE maker have been encouraged to get vaccinated but Ansell's boss says compulsory jabs aren't appropriate.

$7.7 billion is urgently needed to address issues in world's response to pandemic