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26 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Mental Health Mary Wooldridge Reducing The Alcohol And Drug Toll: Victoria’s Plan Victor P Taffa The Coalition Government today released Victoria’s first whole-of-government strategy to reduce the impact of alcohol and drug abuse in the Victorian community. Launching Reducing the alcohol and drug toll: Victoria’s plan 2013-2017, Minister for Mental Health Mary [...]
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24 January 2013
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Health Jeremy Rockliff King Islanders Appalled With Frontline Health Cuts Like All Tasmanians Victor P Taffa Shadow Minister for Health Jeremy Rockliff said the furore over an entourage of bureaucrats chartering a plane to King Island just highlights the frustration of King Islanders like all Tasmanians, over the cruel and heartless [...]
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15 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis Victoria Moves To Cover Canberra’s Elective Surgery Cuts Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government has rolled out an elective surgery initiative in a bid to stem some of the pain being caused by Federal Government health funding cuts, Health Minister David Davis said today. The Competitive Elective [...]
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15 January 2013
Queensland Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg One Million Reasons To Build A Better Queensland Health System Victor P Taffa A system to improve health care by sharing hospital records has passed a milestone, with more than one million hospital discharge records sent electronically to GPs. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said the milestone for the Enterprise [...]
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15 January 2013
Queensland Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg Contractors Sought For Award Winning University Hospital Victor P Taffa Contractors will soon be able to apply to work on the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg today announced online applications for 230 work packages for the construction of the hospital project would open on Wednesday, 16 [...]
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15 January 2013
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames First Clinical Appointments To New Hospital Victor P Taffa First key clinical positions filled at Fiona Stanley public hospital All appointments to start work on January 29 The first three clinical positions at the new $2Billion Fiona Stanley public hospital have been filled, marking the start of service [...]
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13 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis Australian-First Rapid Testing HIV Trial In Victoria Victor P Taffa Plans for a community-based rapid HIV testing trial in Victoria have been unveiled by Minister for Health David Davis today. Speaking at the opening of the 25th annual Midsumma Festival in Birrarung Marr, Mr. Davis said the trial, [...]
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11 January 2013
Western Australia Minister for Mental Health Helen Morton Data Shows WA Ecstasy Use More Than Halved Victor P Taffa Drug Aware advertising campaign re-launched to educate young people Ecstasy use declined from 4.3% in 2008 to 2% in 2011 New research data shows the proportion of 12 to 17-year-old students using ecstasy in Western Australia [...]
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06 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis Minister Plibersek, Is The Cheque In The Mail? Victor P Taffa The Federal Labor Government has failed to pay Victoria more than $159 Million for hospital building projects despite Health Minister Tanya Plibersek’s claim almost two months ago that she had signed the cheque. Victorian Health Minister, David Davis [...]
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03 January 2013
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Health Jeremy Rockliff Elective Surgery Waiting Lists Blow Out Victor P Taffa The savage impact of the Government’s cruel budget cuts is clear for all to see in today’s Health Progress Chart. Waiting lists have blown out by over 20 % on the North West coast and by nearly 10 % [...]
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20 December 2012
Queensland Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg Rapid HIV Testing Approved For Queensland Use Victor P Taffa A quick new screening test for HIV, which will cut the waiting time for results from three months to half an hour, will be available in Queensland soon. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said Queensland’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS [...]
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19 December 2012
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames First Concrete Pour For Midland Public Hospital Victor P Taffa Foundations for hospital prepared with soil from new children’s hospital site Construction on schedule for new Midland Public Hospital Free public health care at hospital from 2015 The first major concrete pour at the Midland Public Hospital has [...]
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17 December 2012
Queensland Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg Newman Government Bans New Solariums Victor P Taffa Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has announced Queensland will ban new solariums from January 1. Mr. Springborg says sun-beds and stand-up tanning machines that use exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) are dangerous. “People who use a solarium before the age of 35 [...]
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28 November 2012
Northern Territory Minister for Health David Tollner TERRITORY HEALTH UNDERGOES REFORM Victor P Taffa Minister for Health David Tollner today announced reform of the Northern Territory’s health system, which will see decision making powers returned to the regions and Hospitals. “What I am announcing today is a new Service Framework for Health and Hospital Services [...]
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26 November 2012
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Australians Living Longer With More Disability-Free Years Victor P Taffa Older Australians are living longer and, on average, getting more years of life without severe or profound limitations to their basic daily activities, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The [...]
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18 November 2012
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis Historic Milestone For Victoria’s Air Ambulances Victor P Taffa Minister for Health David Davis today paid tribute to Victoria’s air ambulance service that is celebrating 50 dedicated years of flying patients in critical life threatening emergencies. Around 100 people including flight paramedics, pilots, navigators and past patients and families [...]
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14 November 2012
Western Australia Minister for Mental Health Helen Morton Alcohol’s Effect On Developing Brain Victor P Taffa Child’s brain continues to develop until their early 20s National guidelines recommend no alcohol is the safest choice for under 18s A new Western Australian television campaign begins tonight, explaining to parents the effect of alcohol on the developing [...]
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11 November 2012
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames More New Doctors To Train In WA Victor P Taffa WA to benefit from 40 new places for medical interns New agreement with Commonwealth builds more places Total number of medical interns for 2013 becomes 332, up from 292 32 Commonwealth-funded places will be in private hospitals 8 [...]
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09 November 2012
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis Tanya Plibersek Caught Out On Canberra’s Savage Hospital Cuts Victor P Taffa Commonwealth Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has been caught out by documents from her own Gillard Government that disclose savage funding cuts will be delivered to public hospitals around Australia. The bombshell Treasury documents show that Minister Plibersek’s [...]
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05 November 2012
Victoria Minister for Health David Davis A Bigger And Better Hospital For Box Hill Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition’s $447.5 Million redevelopment of Box Hill Hospital will deliver the highest quality acute services for Melbourne’s east with an extra floor to be built. Minister for Health David Davis said the redevelopment was on time [...]
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