New Zealand has hundreds fewer nurses per 100,000 people than Australia, with the divide doubling in a decade, figures show. The under-pressure health system has been plagued by nursing shortages at the same time demand from the latest Covid-19 outbreak and winter ills stretches resources…
Doctors on short-term locum contracts are being paid “desperation money” as the Queensland state government grapples with a chronic doctor shortage. According to the Courier Mail, tax-payer-funded pay packages worth $1 million per year have been offered to fly-in locum doctors as some hospitals have…