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Catholic student’s vision to bring eye care to the homeless
A Notre Dame University medical student is helping restore vision and dignity to people experiencing homelessness across Sydney by providing free and accessible eye care through his mobile eye clinic, Eyes of Hope.
Not-for-profit healthcare sector welcomes proposed funding reform
Australia’s not-for-profit private healthcare sector has backed the federal Government’s proposal for a new funding mechanism that puts private hospitals on a sustainable footing, removes complexity, and focuses on delivering quality care to patients. Source: CHA.
Commonwealth initiative sees university expand medicine program
The University of Notre Dame Australia has received an extra 10 Commonwealth-supported places for its Doctor of Medicine program, as part of the federal government’s initiative to increase the nation’s medical workforce.
States call for hospital funds to address ‘growing crisis’
The number of “effectively homeless” older Australians stranded in hospitals because they can’t get an aged care bed has surged by nearly a quarter, with one state Health Minister labelling the problem as a “national shame”. Source: Daily Telegraph.
Mercy Health joins Call to promote ‘algorethics’
Mercy Health has joined global tech leaders and public and private institutions worldwide in endorsing the Vatican’s ethical approach to artificial intelligence as the first Australian health and aged care provider to sign the Rome Call for AI Ethics.
Mercy Hospital’s at-home program HITH the spot
Werribee Mercy Hospital has won a 2025 Victorian Healthcare Award for its Neonatal and Paediatric Hospital in the Home (HITH) program. Source: Mercy Health.
St Vincent’s to shift half its services to at-home or online care by 2030
St Vincent’s, the country’s largest network of non-profit public and private hospitals, will shift half of all its services to at-home or online care by 2030, devoting hospital space to intensive care and emergency wards. Source: The Australian.
States say Government must boost funding for public hospitals
State and territory leaders have launched a coordinated attack on the Albanese Government’s handling of increasingly strained public hospital funding negotiations, declaring they cannot sacrifice hospital care to bolster the Commonwealth’s budget bottom line. Source: ABC News.
Delegation’s visit brings together mission and innovation
A senior Vatican official and Samsung Health executives spent a week in Australia touring Catholic hospitals as part of a visit that brought together mission and innovation. Source: CHA.