This report presents information on the demographic and employment characteristics of the nursing and midwifery workforce, based primarily on estimates derived from the National Health Workforce Data Set.

'Australia's health 2012' is the thirteenth biennial health report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of national information on health in Australia. It provides answers to questions such as: - How healthy are Australians? and what major milestones affect health over the life course? How...

This policy provides a framework for state and territory policies and guidelines on the treatment of opioid dependence with methadone and buprenorphine. The National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data (NOPSAD) collection is an administrative by-product collection (that is, secondary use). Data are collated in each jurisdiction from information already collected for the purposes of administering...

This report presents data from the 2011 National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection, highlighting the prescribed drugs that clients in Australia took to help manage opioid dependence. Characteristics of the clients, prescribers and dosing point sites where the pharmacotherapy drugs were dispensed are also presented. The data are based on a ‘snapshot’ period—usually a...

This report presents information on cases of serious injury resulting in hospitalisation due to transport accidents involving a train for the five year period 2004-05 to 2008-09. Serious injury due to transport accidents involving a railway train Over the 5-year period, 868 persons were seriously injured in Australia due to transport accidents involving a train...