AUSTRALIA’S oral health status has ranked second worst in the OECD Community Services and Health Industries face skills crisis in oral health.
30/07/2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched an action plan aimed at saving up to 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015.
04/11/2009
THE VICTORIAN government is currently facing a tough decision as how to handle the current H1N1 influenza (swine flu) outbreak, with a pandemic plan which fails to fit the characteristics of the virus.
04/06/2009
The latest proposed reforms by the Federal Government are touted to be the biggest change to Australia's health and hospital system since the introduction of Medicare. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd claims these reforms will deliver better hospitals and better health services across Australia.
05/03/2010
ST VINCENT Hospital has used its Rudd Government $450,000 grant to purchase additional surgical equipment to help reduce waiting times for elective surgery.
28/08/2009
DURING the 2007-08 financial year, more than 10,000 elderly patients have beneficiated from the Government’s $293.2m Transition Care Plan.
30/03/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Medical Association (AMA) has called on the federal government to release economic modelling on its plan to limit Medicare payments for IVF treatment or to scrap the proposal altogether
13/08/2009
The Australian National University (ANU) is hosting a series of six national roundtable discussions that will make recommendations to the Rudd Government's national health forum.
19/11/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Health Ministers’ Conference has announced the national e-health system is one step closer to commencement with the development of healthcare identifier numbers.
17/07/2009
Some Queensland residents suffering from chronic disease will be the first to trial a new chronic care program that aims to improve the quality of life and reduce the rate of unplanned hospital admissions for patients with heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and other long-term chronic illnesses.
28/01/2010
QUEENSLAND medical professionals are on standby in case they are needed as part of the national response to the Samoa tsunami.
01/10/2009
THE RUDD Government has released a draft of Australia's first National Primary Health Care Strategy.
04/09/2009
THE FEDERAL Government hosted a roundtable in Canberra with women’s health experts on 12 March 2009, in an effort to kick-start the development of a new National Women’s Health policy.
16/03/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Medical Association (AMA) has announced its support for the Australia’s disability and community sector as they call for a National Disability Insurance Scheme.
08/10/2009
FEARS the proposed National party’s three per cent cuts will hurt the Queensland medical system have been confirmed with the announcement $260m will be cut from the health budget.
25/03/2009
KIDNEY Health Australia has announced it has set up a national multi-disciplinary working party which has been designed to look at attitudes to dialysis and resources available for dialysis in Australian renal units which are under stress to cope with growing numbers.
16/06/2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has launched a national portal focusing on clinical practice guidelines.
11/03/2010
Continuing roll-out of the national immunisation program aimed at cervical cancer is thought to have caused a spike in the Government’s spending on preventative health measures in the financial year ending 2008.
10/11/2009
QUEENSLAND is poised to recruit health specialists whose jobs are threatened at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) as a result of budget cuts by the West Australian Liberal/National Government.
13/10/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government has welcomed reports today the Commonwealth will invest their fair share in the health system.
23/07/2009