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What you can do to support carers in your workplace

Supporting carers to balance work and care is rapidly becoming one of the most critical social and workplace issues of this generation. Timothy Broady and Katherine Stone provide some tips for employers on how to manage all staff with carer responsibilities.

It stays with you

HealthProcure 2016

Procurement and supply chain managers in the health and aged care sectors are continuously searching for opportunities to deliver better outcomes for all their stakeholders – especially patients.

The endless possibilities of foodservices

Australia questions unnecessary medical tests

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Infection Control: The White Coat Question

On a warm August 2004 day in Philadelphia, I joined 150 first-year medical students on stage at the University of Pennsylvania to celebrate the start of our medical careers. The dean called our names and, one by one, draped short white coats around our shoulders. We then stood together as a class and recited the Hippocratic Oath, reflecting on the importance of becoming humanistic physicians. My parents had driven up from Kentucky and proudly sat in the audience. It was a powerful ritual and a memorable day.

Infection Control is in the hands of our patients

For the Spring 2015 issue of Australian ºÚÁϳԹÏȺÍø and Healthcare Bulletin we have discovered an industry-wide leaning towards involving patients in their own care, from infection control, hospital design, meal planning and through the monitoring of their own health via smart technology and wearables.

A critical review to plan the future: An infection prevention and control conference with a difference

The Role of Australian Consumers in Infection Prevention and Control

Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections standard 3

A Healthy Supply Chain Supports Better Quality Care

Ethics in IVF Gender Selection: The Conversation

This article is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on stem cell research and therapy. Read the rest of the series here.

Revisions to National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards

The National Safety and Quality in Health Services Standards were introduced in 2011 by The Australian CommissionÌýon Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission), under the National Health Reform Act.

The Future of Medical Imaging

Chronic Insomnia Treatment with Half-And-Half Placebo Replacement

The science of sleep medicine has long proved difficult in the treatment of chronic insomnia, with researchers still not convinced of the effectiveness of sleeping pills currently on the market. However, researchers at Penn University in the US have found that a half-and-half mixture of sleeping pills and placebo tablets might be just as effective as a nightly schedule of sleep medication for treating chronic insomnia.