The future of our profession depends on those willing to guide the next generation.

These new tobacco products are becoming popular, and it is important to understand the health risks of nicotine pouches.

Stay ahead in your field with the Insight Training Calendar — your go-to schedule for high-quality, evidence-based professional development in alcohol and other drug (AOD), mental health and related practice areas. Insight is a Queensland Health initiative delivered by Metro North Mental Health – Alcohol and Drug Service, offering a comprehensive suite of free and accessible training for Queensland-based workers.

For more than 50 years, Colleen Blums has helped shape the landscape of advanced nursing practice in Australia. Known for her leadership, advocacy and commitment to the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) sector, she has championed the role of nurse practitioners at every stage of her career. 

That legacy is now being recognised through the Colleen Blums Excellence in Nursing Award, an initiative created to celebrate AOD Nurse Practitioners who continue to push the profession forward.

This webinar introduces Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Alcohol and Other Drug settings, helping practitioners recognise signs, strengthen screening approaches, and adapt practice to better support people with possible FASD.

The Department of Health is working to better understand Queensland Health's workforce challenges because we want to identify the system changes that will have the biggest impact. To help us focus our efforts to greatest advantage for our workforce and our patients, we have undertaken a detailed health workforce analysis, the Workforce Gap Analysis. This report outlines what we have learned from the analysis of our current workforce data and from projections about future workforce supply and demand. It identifies where we have current and emerging workforce challenges across Queensland Health.

The ACT is one step closer to implementing life-saving updates to its alcohol delivery laws, as advocates urge the territory government to implement its Liquor Amendment Bill as soon as possible, following a report from the parliamentary committee looking at the Bill.