Hospitals and Healthcare

VACCHO in partnership with the Department of Health is providing scholarships to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in their professional development.
Training scholarships valued at up to $4,000 are available to Aboriginal health workers and practitioners to support one year of professional development activity.

Training scholarships are intended to remove the financial barriers to doing professional development training. Some examples of what training scholarships can help with are:

course tuition costs
education equipment costs
financial support to cover travel costs
child minding costs.

The aim is to find and treat lung cancers early, before they grow and spread, to improve the chance of survival. Here’s what’s involved.

Frank Watt has been able to return to his home and family after two years away thanks to a new dialysis unit on Mornington Island.

Despite the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in medical curricula by the Australian Medical Council (AMC), there remains a significant gap in the effective application and practice of this knowledge to transform health systems. Creating a curriculum that meets the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities involves many considerations. In …

Lupus is two to four times more common among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It’s also tends to be more severe, with higher rates of kidney failure than non-Indigenous people with lupus.

After this model was implemented, the gap in heart health outcomes we measured between First Nations and non-Indigenous patients closed.

New recommendations for primary care assessment of ear health and hearing status of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Calls for greater funding in local health services as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer from high rates of type 1 and 2 diabetes

A comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians admitted to intensive care units reveals a “disturbing” difference in mortality outcomes. A new study has found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more likely to die within 12 months following an intensive care unit (ICU) admission than the general population. Analysis recently published in The Medical …

Noongar man Peter Farmer was diagnosed with diabetes in his early 20s. It took a near-death experience for him to get his health back on track.

Having overcome childhood adversity and language barriers, McGrath is using his platform to help address the root cause of health inequality in Indigenous communities

Being in an Aboriginal midwifery program meant we had a culturally safe experience from both a First Nations and an LGBTIQA+ perspective

A large majority of Aboriginal community-owned health facilities in Victoria are in urgent need of infrastructure funding, according to a new report from the state's top advisory body and peak body for Indigenous health. 

First Nations women face almost twice the risk of stillbirth compared to non-First Nations women. Much of the inequity can be linked to the ongoing impact of colonisation on birthing women.

A transactional mental health system fails to accommodate consumers’ needs for human connection and understanding. Elders in Perth are helping to transform this system.

Midwives from Aboriginal Women's health centre Waminda will now be allowed to help First Nations women like Emma Ardler give birth at Shoalhaven Hospital after previous restrictions were lifted. 

Yuggera, Warangoo and Wiradjuri doctor Kristopher Rallah-Baker says it’s important others ‘see they won’t be brought down if they complain about racism’

Despite constant headlines about general practice being in crisis, research shows one area is shining brightly. So what can we learn from Aboriginal-run health services?

Corrections minister Enver Erdogan to confirm transition to public services, in move welcomed by Indigenous advocates