General News
Health
professionals in gold medal performance
Victoria's health professionals
combined to produce a gold medal performance during the 2006 Commonwealth
Games.
Experts
to lead conference
Australia's Health
2006 Conference participants will discuss the most important
health issues facing Australia.
New
crisis care centre for Maroondah
Help is at hand for
sexual assault victims in Eastern metropolitan Melbourne with the
announcement of $500,000 funding for a crisis care unit at Maroondah
Hospital.
$7
million health boost for Aboriginal Victorians
A new partnership between
Victorian health services and the Aboriginal community will improve
indigenous health in Victoria.
Nurse
volunteers for eye clinic
A volunteering expedition
to Tanzania has left Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital nurse
Julie Tyers eager to return to the East African country.
Families
the focus of trauma study
The impact of intensive
care admissions on family members is the focus of a unique study
by the Social Work Trauma Team at the Alfred Hospital.
Funds
boost for crisis line
Victorian women experiencing
family violence can now expect support 24 hours a day, seven days
a week thanks to increased funding for the Statewide family violence
crisis line.
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Metropolitan Health
Michael
Klim shares gold medal moment
A near-fatal brain
haemorrhage saw Aaron Hansen, 11, spend his school holidays in the
Royal Children's Hospital.
Angliss
expands
A $1.3 million day
surgery unit will replace the old, unused emergency department at
Angliss Hospital, Health Minister Bronwyn Pike announced while opening
the hospital's new operating theatres.
Paediatric
care recognised
The Centre for International
Child Health (CICH) at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital has
achieved an Australian first with official recognition from the
World Health Organisation (WHO).
MRI
centre puts children in the picture
Life-saving research
and treatment for children with cancer will be developed at Australia's
newest and fastest kids' MRI scanning centre, launched by Innovation
Minister John Brumby and Health Minister Bronwyn Pike.
Study
centre to probe disability mysteries
A new Royal Children's
Hospital centre will focus on researching causes and improving outcomes
for children with disabilities.
Cooling
technique saves young life at Frankston Hospital
A drug overdose victim,
15, was brought back from the brink of death, because of innovative
research work by Peninsula Health Intensive Care Unit staff at Frankston
Hospital.
US
award for researcher
Royal Melbourne Hospital's
Associate Professor Terence O'Brien has been awarded the American
Academy of Neurology's 2006 Driefuss-Penry Award.
Award
for study on hand injury rehabilitation
Croatian-born John,
65, crushed and burned both hands in an industrial wood-laminating
machine in October 2003.
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Disability Services
Play
sets up Games community activities
Minister for Community
Services Sherryl Garbutt launched a series of accessible art events
in the City of Port Phillip as part of the Commonwealth Games Community
Activities and Events Program.
Disability
respite forum for agencies in the east
The Eastern Metropolitan
Disability Respite Forum will enable agencies to share and develop
new strategies for service provision.
Guide
for accessible events
The City of Greater
Bendigo's RuralAccess program has produced a new guide to help organisers
make festivals and events accessible to all.
New
booklet helps children
A new book addresses
the problem of excessive drooling in children with cerebral palsy,
intellectual disability and other neurological impairments.
Project
meets communication needs
A new Bendigo Health
service will help people in the southern Loddon Mallee region who
are unable to effectively communicate using speech.
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Public Health
Report
shows statewide health improvement
A new report exposes
what is making Victorians stronger, sicker, healthier or happier.
Bird
flu post in Jakarta for Graham Tallis
One of Victoria's most
senior public health doctors is to join the World Health Organisation
in Indonesia to help with avian influenza and pandemic planning.
Study
to investigate side effects of breast cancer treatment
Peter MacCallum Cancer
Centre's Associate Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips has been awarded
the inaugral Colebatch Fellowship to research the devastating chemotherapy-related
side effects of breast cancer treatment.
Aged Care
New
book a guide to living with Alzheimer's disease
Local experts Dr Kylie
Ladd and Elizabeth Rand—who have more than 25 years experience
between them of working in cognitive, dementia and memory services
(CDAMS)—have written a practical guide to living with dementia.
Work
begins on aged care facilities
Aged Care Minister
Gavin Jennings has marked the start of works at two important new
community rehabilitation centres in Ferntree Gully and Caulfield.
Project
to meet needs of patients with dementia
Research by two RMIT
University social work students is helping Sandringham Hospital
patients with dementia cope with admission.
Grampians
nurses worth banking on
A groundbreaking pilot
program could revolutionise nursing services from Bacchus Marsh
to the South Australian border.
Simple
treatment relieves palliative care patients
The Alfred Hospital's
Speech Pathology Department and Palliative Care Service has combined
with Bethlehem Hospital to develop a new treatment for the chronic
mouth condition known as xerostomia.
Flexibility
key to respite care pilot
An innovative 13-week
trial project has shown that creative approaches to respite can
benefit carers, care recipients and service providers.
Residents
angle to keep their community links
Innovative activities
for residents of Moyne Health Services' Nursing Home and Hostel
have included fishing trips to the local Moyne River.
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Housing
New
home for baton relay participant
Overlooking the sprawling
Edinburgh Gardens and the W.J. Peterson Oval, once the home ground
of the Fitzroy VFL team, is a recently-opened affordable housing
development for 32 Victorians.
Family
takes a look at new home
Representatives of
Loddon Mallee Housing Services joined Housing Minister Candy Broad
to welcome the Cohen family on an inspection of what is to be their
new home in Kangaroo Flat.
Mental Health
Children's
mental health reference group brings stakeholders together
The Royal Children's
Hospital Mental Health Service Community Reference Group (CRG) has
been commended on its diversity.
Innovative
treatment for depression recognised globally
A breakthrough study
at the Alfred Hospital Psychiatric Research Centre may lead to greater
relief for many Australians suffering depression.
Rural and Regional Health
Grampians
nurses worth banking on
A groundbreaking pilot
program could revolutionise nursing services from Bacchus Marsh
to the South Australian border.
Practice
makes perfect for nurse practitioner candidates
Bendigo Health has
introduced nurse practitioner candidates into its emergency department
to help with patient care and reduce waiting times for treatment.
Ambulance
retires to Vanuatu
Rural Ambulance Victoria
has donated a Commodore Light Ambulance Vehicle, equipped with a
stretcher and minor equipment, to the Vanuatu Department of Health
to be used for emergency transport.
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Play
sets up Games community activities 
