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ACN Transcript – Scope of Practice Review – ACN National Director Professional Practice Karen Grace

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MEDIA TRANSCRIPT 6 November 2024 ACN National Director Professional Practice Karen GraceScope of Practice Review – 2CC Canberra Breakfast   STEPHEN CENATIEMPO: This week, the final report of what’s called the Unleashing the Potential of Our Health Workforce – Scope of Practice Review was released by the Health Minister Mark Butler, and look, it seems … Continued

Nurses and midwives helping deliver new models of healthcare

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The recommendations of the ‘Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce’ Scope of Practice Review’ Final Report (‘Report’), allowing highly-trained nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to best utilise their skills, education and extensive experience, provides an important new framework for the delivery of integrated, quality healthcare services across the community, according to the Australian … Continued

How a discovery in the Merri Creek may save us from superbugs

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A survey of a waterway on Wurundjeri land has led to the discovery of new viruses that kill the superbug Klebsiella. With estimates that superbugs will kill at least 10 million people a year across the world by 2050, the finding, led by a partnership of Traditional Owners and Monash University researchers and published in … Continued

AI-powered endoscopes to help reduce cancer screening times

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Artificial intelligence will soon help doctors detect cancerous lesions in real-time during endoscopic procedures, through a new collaboration between medical device company Optiscan Imaging Ltd (Optiscan) and Monash University’s digital health experts.    Announced today, an agreement between Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology and Optiscan will advance a project to develop a next generation … Continued

BeiGene Highlights Innovative Hematology Portfolio Across B-cell Malignancies at ASH 2024

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Five-year results of Phase 3 SEQUOIA study demonstrate durable benefits of BRUKINSA in patients with CLL Two oral presentations showcase promising safety and efficacy data for BTK chimeric degradation activation compound (CDAC), BGB-16673 Oral presentation highlights continued deep and durable responses and manageable tolerability observed in Phase 1 study of BCL2 inhibitor, sonrotoclax, in combination … Continued

Unleashing the potential of the rural and remote health workforce

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The long-awaited final report Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce: Scope of Practice Review was released today following over a year long process to conduct the review in four phases.   “The National Rural Health Alliance congratulates the team led by Professor Mark Cormack for this important review which will provide the direction for … Continued

ACN urges action on key recommendations from Scope of Practice Review

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The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) welcomes the findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce – Scope of Practice Review, released today by the Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler.   ACN is urging the Government to respond positively to the recommendations … Continued

Stronger Medicare winners show ‘the best of general practice’

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The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) is congratulating general practices and GPs who were named in the Stronger Medicare awards on Monday evening (4 November, 2024).    Among the “Medicare Champions” recognised by the Department of Health and Aged Care are five individual GPs from across Australia as well as seven separate general practice … Continued

Albanese Government indefinitely DEFERS patient access to 44 medicines on PBS

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Better Access Australia is urging community and patient groups to sign a petition demanding the Albanese Government reverse its decision to indefinitely defer 44 medicines from being listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). On 22 October the Department of Health and Aged Care advised individual pharmaceutical companies that 44 of the 77 medicine applications … Continued