General News
Awards put best nurses in
spotlight
The achievements of some of
Victoria’s best and brightest nurses and midwives have been recognised at the
State Nursing Excellence Awards.
Community heroes honoured for
their efforts
Courageous Victorians who went
to the rescue of others involved in medical emergencies have been honoured for
their bravery and compassion.
Legislation to strengthen
community health centres
Legislation introduced into
State Parliament by Health Minister Daniel Andrews will strengthen community
health centres with the aim of maintaining their Fringe Benefits Tax and other
charitable concessions.
Women give voice to suffrage
centenary song
A women’s anthem celebrating the
2008 Centenary of Women’s Suffrage—sung by a 400-voice choir—drew
an impromptu, second standing-room-only performance at Federation Square’s BMW
Edge Theatre.
Peninsula hosts medical students
Twenty-four Monash Gippsland
Medical School students will spend 2009 in training at Peninsula Health.
Ear experts test child hearing
in Alice Springs
A team from the Royal Victorian
Eye and Ear Hospital has returned from Alice Springs where they spent a week
treating Aboriginal children for ear conditions.
Forum addresses social inclusion
Social inclusion was a focus of
the recent Human Service Partnership Implementation Committee (HSPIC)
Partnering—The Dialogue forum.
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Metropolitan Health
Brain disease centres
collaborate
Collaborative research links
have been established between the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Neurosciences
Centre and Hadassah Hospital in Israel.
High-tech help in the fight
against cancer
A state-of-the-art robot is the
latest tool in the State Government’s fight against cancer.
Royal Melbourne doctor wins
heart research award
Royal Melbourne Hospital
cardiologist Kurt Roberts-Thomson has won the 2008 Young Investigator Award of
the Heart Rhythm Society.
New dialysis services for
Western Hospital
A major milestone in the $24.8
million Government upgrade of the Western Hospital is complete following the
opening of a refurbished inpatient ward with new renal dialysis services.
Royal Melbourne stem cell
research breaks new ground
Ten patients with non-healing
fractures of the leg bones have taken part in a clinical trial at Royal
Melbourne Hospital that has seen their own stem cells used to repair nine of 11
fractures.
Public Health
Eggcellent start to Food Safety
Week
Victorian consumers are being
urged to take more care when buying, storing, preparing and cooking eggs during
the peak food poisoning season.
Award for ‘walkability’ guide
A booklet to help subdivision
planners and developers design building environment that invite rather than
discourage ‘walkability’ has won a Planning Institute Australia award.
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Disability Services
Ready, willing and able to make
a difference
People with disabilities and
those who work in the field were the centre of attention in early December.
Community Services
Child protection careers open
day proves popular
A Department of Human Services
Child Protection Careers Open Day attracted so much interest an extra date had
to be added.
Aged Care
Forum on low cost accommodation
support
An annual conference has brought
together staff from four Department of Human Services-funded programs that work
with marginalised client groups.
Project to ease social isolation
A State Government initiative
aims at reducing the social isolation of older people living in the eastern
suburbs.
McKellar Centre hosts healthy
ageing expo
The inaugural Barwon Health
Ageing Well Expo at the McKellar Centre promoted the long-term
benefits—emotional, vocational, physical, intellectual and
social—of living a healthy lifestyle.
Aged care boost for
Warracknabeal
About 300 staff, residents and
community members joined Premier John Brumby and Minister for Senior Victorians
Lisa Neville at Rural Northwest Health’s Warracknabeal Campus (Stage 1)
official opening.
You ain’t nuthin’ but a hound
dog
Patients and carers at Southern
Health’s palliative care facility McCulloch House have embraced a pet therapy
program introduced with Dogs Victoria.
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Housing
Ashwood project start in sight
Tenders are now being sought for
an $80 million development for the Ashwood Gateway area.
Partnerships benefit tenants in
Ivanhoe
A $2.2 million State Government
funding boost has transformed a vacant block on Marshall Street in Ivanhoe into
16 homes for single people and small families on low incomes.
Rural and Regional Health
A boost for rural maternity
services
More rural Victorian women will
get even better access to maternity services close to home thanks to a $1.49
million Government funding boost.
Award for bush nurse initiative
Ambulance Victoria (AV) has won
a Victorian Safer Communities Award for its role in training and equipping
nurses in remote areas to deal with medical emergencies and trauma.
There’s no business like snow
business
Victoria’s excellent 2008 snow
season provided great opportunity for visitors—and plenty of challenges
for Ambulance Victoria’s (AV) paramedics.
Dialysis training for country
nurses
Melbourne Health’s North West
Dialysis Service (NWDS) will support renal dialysis training for regional
nurses from northern and western Victoria at Melton Health in partnership with
Djerriwarrh Health.
Broady Health marks anniversary
Broadmeadows Health Service has
celebrated the 10th anniversary of its opening in October 1998.
Uprooted—and it
didn’t hurt a bit
Early risers over a recent
weekend may have seen the unusual sight of a 17 metre building on the back of a
truck, heading towards Rosebud Hospital.
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