THE SOUTH Australian government has announced the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be built to be able to withstand an earthquake.
26/03/2009
THE FEDERAL Government in partnership with the Western Australian State Government are set to fund an innovative patient transport service which will aim to provide greater access to health and social services for indigenous people living on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, in Western Australia.
25/03/2009
REFORMS to the federal health system as proposed by government has NSW doctors concerned existing local practices may be forced to close as GPs are starved of funding.
29/09/2009
THE WESTERN Australian Liberal-national government has announced plans to add obstetric and neonatal care into the Fiona Stanley Hospital five years in advance of previous government plans.
01/05/2009
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 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
THE WESTERN Australian government has announced state residents will soon be able to make important decisions regarding their future medical treatment under new legislation to be implemented in the next three months.
11/06/2009
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
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
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has released an expert committee’s evaluation of the BreastScreen Australia program and has said the valuable program will continue.
09/09/2009
QUEENSLAND Health’s Patient Safety and Quality Executive Committee has been awarded internationally recognised ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management
20/07/2009
THE FEDERAL Government Budget announced last night will see money being injected into Australian research, Universities and Hospitals as well as seeing changed conditions for private health insurance holders and rural doctors.
13/05/2009
THE MINISTER for Employment Participation, Senator Mark Arbib, and the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services, Bill Shorten, today announced the release of the Australian Government's National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy.
18/09/2009
THE WESTERN Australian State Government will inject $10m into Karratha’s Nickol Bay Hospital for urgent upgrades to health services and staff accommodation.
30/01/2009
THE WESTERN Australian Department of Health has launched a website providing the public with information on bed availability and emergency department (ED) services in the states hospitals.
13/02/2009
THE QUEENSLAND state government has implemented a health listening tour across Queensland allowing the Health minister to meet frontline staff and see the first-hand challenges facing the health network.
30/03/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government has welcomed reports today the Commonwealth will invest their fair share in the health system.
23/07/2009
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 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 GOVERNMENT hopes to subject homeopathic medicines to tougher regulations under a bill currently before federal parliament.
26/03/2009