The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released a stroke care package designed to improve care for people presenting to the emergency department with acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA).
01/12/2009 |
Four Perth hospitals have showcased the WA Government’s Four Hour Rule Program aimed at providing some potential solutions to long wait times in emergency departments (EDs) by streamlining hospital processes.
11/11/2009 |
Randox Medica has launched a biochip analyser that will save lives of cardiac patients by providing immediate diagnosis at the point of care.
11/11/2009 |
AMA has released a report stating Australia��s public hospitals continue to be seriously under-funded and are struggling to meet growing public demand for their services.
15/10/2009 |
THE WESTERN Australian government has announced the $116million redevelopment of Rockingham General Hospital has moved closer to completion with the opening of a new two-storey ward block
11/09/2009 |
THE AUSTRALIAN Medical Association (AMA) has condoned a study urging technical jargon and acronyms to be banished from elective surgery patient consent forms.
07/09/2009 |
THE RUDD Government has released a draft of Australia's first National Primary Health Care Strategy.
04/09/2009 |
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 |
WESTERN Australian Health Minister has announced the appointment of Dr Kevin Yuen as State Medical Director of the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority, as part of a $151.1million national reform of organ and tissue donation.
24/08/2009 |
WESTERN Australian researchers have been awarded nearly two million dollars in research grants under a project aimed at increasing efficiencies, cost savings and improving patient outcomes across the State’s health system.
24/08/2009 |
A PARTNERSHIP announced between Liberal-National Government’s Royalties for Regions initiative and major industries in the Pilbara is hoping to boost funding for the region’s health services.
18/08/2009 |
SIR CHARLES Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) has become the first hospital in Western Australia to be awarded international accreditation for delivering excellence in nursing and patient care.
12/08/2009 |
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 QUEENSLAND Government has welcomed reports today the Commonwealth will invest their fair share in the health system.
23/07/2009 |
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 |
STIRLING Products has announced that MilPharma’s Administrators have accepted its offer to purchase the company subject to conditions.
26/06/2009 |
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 |
MOUNT Eden’s Mercy Radiology practice is now offering MRI services with the ultra-wide Siemens 3-Tesla MAGNETOM Verio MRI, designed to help mobility impaired patients and people having to undergo intra-operative procedures.
10/06/2009 |
PHENOMENEX will launch HPLC options designed for increasing lab productivity at ASMS 2009.
25/05/2009 |
THE WESTERN Australian government has pledged to spend $8.4m over the next three years to help encourage General Practitioners (GPs) across the state to extend their opening hours to include weeknights and weekends.
20/05/2009 |