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25 June 2010
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames New Funds Will Help Build WA’s New Children’s Hospital Victor P Taffa Western Australia’s New State-of-The-Art Children’s Hospital will be totally funded by the State Government thanks to yesterday’s historic royalties’ agreement with mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Health Minister Kim Hames said the two companies would make a joint [...]
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25 June 2010
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames Obstetrician to Start Work at Nickol Bay Hospital Victor P Taffa Women living in the Pilbara will have increased access to specialist medical services with the appointment of an obstetrician to Karratha’s Nickol Bay Hospital. Health Minister Kim Hames today announced Dr Rainer Perez would start work at the hospital in June [...]
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21 June 2010
New South Wales Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner MORE LABOR HEALTH FAILURE: CANCER PATIENTS LEFT OFF WAITING LISTS, TREATMENT DELAYED Victor P Taffa Labor Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt’s admission her new surgery booking system for Westmead Hospital has failed is yet another reason for families to vote out this incompetent Keneally Labor Government in March, Shadow Minister [...]
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21 June 2010
New South Wales Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner KENEALLY LABOR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO CLOSE THE GAP ON ABORIGINAL HEALTH Victor P Taffa Despite signing the Close The Gap agreement in Parliament a week ago, Premier Kristina Keneally was unable to explain in Question Time why she underspent the Aboriginal Health Budget last year and failed to meet [...]
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20 June 2010
New South Wales Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner Labor Abandon Medical Research Victor P Taffa The State Budget has revealed the Keneally Labor Government has abandoned the ongoing support of vital medical research, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today. Buried in the Budget Estimates documents (7 – 36) it is revealed the Science and Medical Research [...]
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19 June 2010
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames Community Thanked For New $3.4 Million Paediatric Wing at Peel Health Campus Victor P Taffa Sick children in the Peel region will benefit from a new $3.4 Million Paediatric Wing at Peel Health Campus which was significantly paid for by the Local Community. Health Minister Kim Hames today opened the Ralph and [...]
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17 June 2010
Western Australia Minister for Regional Development Brendon Grylls Western Australia Minister for Agriculture and Food Terry Redman Successful Men’s Health Program Expanded Victor P Taffa A successful service to improve men’s wellbeing and personal resilience in the Wheatbelt will be expanded State-wide using funding from the Liberal-National Government’s Royalties for Regions program. Regional Development Minister Brendon Grylls and Agriculture and [...]
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17 June 2010
Victoria Shadow Minister for Health David Davis VIC COALITION TO INCREASE HEALTH TRANSPARENCY BY RELEASING OUTPATIENT WAITING LISTS Victor P Taffa A Victorian Liberal Nationals Coalition Government will end John Brumby’s cover-up of Public Hospital Outpatient waiting lists by releasing Quarterly Waiting list numbers and the time patients wait to get an appointment, both of which are kept [...]
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17 June 2010
Victoria Shadow Minister for Health David Davis BRUMBY’S AMBULANCE ADMISSION A CYNICAL SHAM Victor P Taffa Victoria Premier John Brumby’s arrogant refusal to meet with the victims of his Ambulance failures shows his belated admission that Rural Ambulance Services are not up to scratch is a cynical election-eve sham. “John Brumby’s claim that he will finally do something to [...]
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17 June 2010
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Hospital Admissions Rise, Signs That Elective Surgery Queues Falling Victor P Taffa Australian hospital statistics, 2008-09 Australian hospital statistics 2008-09 presents a detailed overview of Australia’s 1,317 public and private hospitals. In 2008-09, there were 8.1 million separations from Australia’s hospitals including: 4.5 million same-day acute separations; 3.3 million overnight acute separations; almost [...]
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15 June 2010
Western Australia Minister for Health Kim Hames Work Begins on New Cancer and Pathology Facilities at QEII Medical Centre Victor P Taffa Construction work has started on a New State-of-the-Art Pathology Centre and expansion of the State’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre. The Projects, valued at more than $54 Million each, are the first [...]
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09 June 2010
Victoria Shadow Minister for Health David Davis MORE MONEY NEEDED FOR HEALTHCARE INSTEAD OF RUDD’S AD CON Victor P Taffa John Brumby must insist that any money being used by Kevin Rudd for health advertising in Victoria is redirected to frontline health services according to Shadow Minister for Health David Davis said today. “John Brumby promised in 1999 to [...]
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07 June 2010
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare The health of Australia’s prisoners 2009 Victor P Taffa The health of Australia’s prisoners 2009 is the culmination of several years’ development of national indicators in relation to prisoner health in Australia. This first national report shows that prisoners in Australia have poor health compared to the general community. A week-long snapshot [...]
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07 June 2010
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Cardiovascular disease a major threat to Australian women Victor P Taffa Cardiovascular disease is a major threat to the health of Australian women, according to a new report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The report Women and heart disease: Cardiovascular profile of women in Australia was funded by [...]
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