2025 is shaping up as one of the worst flu years in recent times: 658 deaths have been recorded in the first seven months of 2025 according to provisional figures – the worst toll since the same period in 2019. July alone saw 258 deaths, the highest monthly toll since 2017. This morning, ACN Chief Nursing Officer Frances Rice spoke about the urgent need for nurse-led vaccination programs to reverse declining immunisation rates, a call backed by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and S

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Australian College of Nursing Chief Nursing Officer Frances Rice has been interviewed across the media this morning, explaining one of the biggest advances for Australian healthcare in decades: registered nurse prescribing. Read more from the ABC here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-30/registered-nurses-prescribing-medicine/105831424 This has the potential to be a gamechanger for access to safe, high-quality prescribing in all settings, in all parts of Australia. The model will see designat