Healthcare Workers

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Politics & Society

Is Melbourne really a 24-hour city if public transport stops?

Sometimes Melbourne’s public transport goes dark. Our Map of the Month shows it makes life hard – even dangerous – for those in our night-time economy

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Health & Medicine

The morals and ethics of the COVID-19 frontline

Victoria’s healthcare workers need a comprehensive program of support to help them avoid moral injury and its impacts through the COVID-19 pandemic

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Health & Medicine

Gathering lessons from COVID-19 health workers as they happen

Voice memos from health workers are being confidentially collected to capture their experience of the pandemic, boost the future preparedness of health systems and support workers

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Business & Economics

More transparency needed in PPE supply chains

COVID-19 has exposed a shortage of manufacturing capacity in personal protective equipment, but the larger problem is a lack of transparency over supplies and supply chains

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Health & Medicine

People in aged care sector need psychological as well as physical protection

Our aged care workforce is facing unprecedented stress during the pandemic. Staff, as well as residents, need a psychological version of PPE to protect their mental wellbeing

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Health & Medicine

As a health worker, what’s my risk from COVID-19?

Health workers are doing it tough on the front line of the pandemic and some have died, but for most the risk of fatal infection is very low, and the risk to older health workers can be mitigated

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