Tag: Catholic Health Australia

Australia’s last independently diocese-owned private hospital warns that planned changes to the private health insurance rebate could hit regional health services far harder than national modelling suggests.

Catholic Health Australia says solving hospital bed block will require reform across hospitals, aged care, disability services and housing, warning the problem is costing the health system up to $1.6 billion a year.

Pope Leo XIV’s World Day of the Sick message calls Christians to draw near to those who suffer, bearing their pain with compassion. It comes at a time when high-quality palliative and end-of-life care is more important than ever.

Palliative care supports people who are dying to live comfortably and make the most of every remaining day, often in their own surroundings and with their loved ones by their side.

Catholics are being urged to reflect during this year’s World Day of the Sick on the “grace-filled encounters” which can emerge at times of adversity.

Modern healthcare can be curiously bloodless, focussing on wages, the expense of drugs, insurance and patients’ length of stay. Yet those intangibles that cannot be tallied up on spreadsheets—compassion, the dignity of persons and the spiritual dimension of healthcare—are truly at the heart of our profession, writes Brigid Meney.

National palliative care week provides an important opportunity to raise awareness about palliative care, in particular the top quality physical and spiritual care offered by Catholic providers all over Australia, writes Brigid Meney.

Events such as this week’s Jobs & Skills Summit are golden opportunities to ensure diverse voices who often don’t get the prominence warranted, are...

Palliative care experts have welcomed the state government’s plans to boost the sector with an additional $743 million in funding over the next five...

Euthanasia legislation has passed the NSW Parliament, with Archbishop Anthony Fisher describing it as “truly a dark day for New South Wales”. The Voluntary Assisted...

With debate on Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s “voluntary assisted dying” legislation coming to a head in the NSW Upper House, Catholic aged care providers are concerned they will be forced to allow euthanasia on premises without conscience protections.

Catholic Health Australia has stepped up its opposition to NSW’s assisted dying legislation with a campaign calling for better access to palliative care instead...