More affordable medicines on their way
20 March 2025
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A re-elected Albanese Government will further reduce the cost of PBS-listed medicines, ensuring that Australians pay no more than $25 a script.
A re-elected Albanese Government will further reduce the cost of PBS-listed medicines, ensuring that Australians pay no more than $25 a script.
My Aged Care is poorly understood, insufficiently promoted, onerously complex to navigate and not appropriately tailored to the needs of the whole of the target population.
The 2026 national theme, 50 Years of Deadly, marking five decades of NAIDOC Week is dedicated to amplifying and celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures.
Bridging Now to Next calls on all Australians to step forward together, to look ahead and continue the push forward as past lessons guide us.
The theme for National Reconciliation Week 20206 All In has been announced and calls on Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every day.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on all Australians and significantly on the health and aged care professions, changing the way we work
The Albanese Labor Government is continuing progress work to establish a national worker registration scheme for personal care workers in aged care.
In December 2024, Health Ministers approved a new registration standard paving the way for qualified registered nurses to prescribe Schedule 2, 3, 4 and 8 medicines in partnership with an authorised health practitioner who is an independent prescriber. This landmark change will take effect mid-2025.
This latest episode of the ANMF Podcast, presented in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency, brings together senior leaders in nursing and midwifery to explore how digital health, especially AI, is reshaping clinical roles and care delivery.
The Albanese Labor Government has committed to streamlining national screening checks for nurses and midwives – a move that will cut red tape, save money, and make it easier for nurses and midwives to do their jobs.