General News
Our Christmas gift
The Department of Human
Services’ annual toy drive has helped brighten up Christmas for more than 300
children.
Awards for Victoria’s best and
most innovative nurses
Some of Victoria’s best and most
innovative nurses have received State Nursing Excellence Awards.
New service under way
A 32-year-old man taken from
Geelong Hospital to the Royal Melbourne has become the first patient for the
Metropolitan Ambulance Service’s newest division—Adult Retrieval
Victoria.
Victorians warned to check
medications
A study of more than 1,200 cases
of medication error has triggered a warning for Victorians to double-check they
are taking or administering the correct medication and dosage.
Paramedics thank community
heroes
Seventeen ordinary Victorians
who performed 10 extraordinary lifesaving acts have been officially recognised
as heroes by Metropolitan Ambulance Service paramedics.
Ambulance Victoria welcomes
Aboriginal project officer
Ambulance Victoria has appointed
of Zane Alford as its Aboriginal Project Officer.
Conference to tackle grief
The Australian Centre for Grief
and Bereavement will host the 8th International Conference on Grief and
Bereavement in Contemporary Society between July 15 and 18.
Travel scholarship winner
Caulfield General Medical Centre
physiotherapist Rod Sturt has been awarded this year’s Felice Rosemary Lloyd
Trust scholarship.
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Public Health
Government seeks comment on new
body piercing laws
The State Government will seek
community input on proposed legislation banning intimate body piercings on
people under the age of 18.
Young people benefit from
diabetes camp
Bradley and Jamie Addlem from
Baringhup near Bendigo were among 170 children and teens with type one diabetes
who took part in summer camps at Anglesea and Bright.
Update on Hep Chat
The Hepatitis C Council of
Victoria’s Hep Chat radio program can now be downloaded as a podcast.
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Disability Services
Scholarships aid action on
disability
City of Greater Bendigo Rural
Access Community Development Officer Chris Walters has won an Ethel Temby Study
Tour award allowing her to learn about access projects for people with
disabilities in England and Sweden.
Grant for redevelopment
A Yarraville community facility
for people with a disability—David House—has been awarded a
$600,000 Victorian Government Capital Redevelopment Facility Initiative Grant.
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Mental Health
Help for people with a mental
illness
A program helping Victorians
with a mental illness to find or maintain stable housing has been expanded to
15 sites across the state.
Women’s mental health in the
spotlight
An international congress to be
held in Melbourne will focus on the psychosocial, biological and clinical
sciences of women’s mental health from individual, family, society, community
and global perspectives.
Pupils show they care
About 12 months ago, the
Southern Grampians and Glenelg Primary Care Partnership came up with a unique
way of getting the health message to farmers.
Drug Policy
‘Dirty drug’ billboard
The Government campaign on the
dangers of the drug ice or methamphetamine has stepped up over summer with
Minister for Mental Health Lisa Neville launching a new billboard in St Kilda.
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Metropolitan Health
Surgery blitz
The Victorian Government has
bolstered its commitment to tackling elective surgery waiting lists through a
$25.8 million package for hospitals.
Special care baby back as a
midwife
Frankston midwife Vanessa
Chisholm’s life has come full circle.
Recognition for Professor
Oberklaid
Professor Frank Oberklaid,
Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children’s
Hospital, has received the 2007 Medal of Distinction awarded by Children’s
Hospitals Australasia.
New interns for Peninsula Health
In their first year as
professional doctors Peninsula Health’s interns will complete rotations within
Frankston and Rosebud Hospitals and at other sites such as the Mornington
Centre and Golf Links Road Rehabilitation Centre.
Daughters join mums as nurses
Western Health is keeping
nursing in the family with Drysdale and Hyland daughters among 66 graduates
added to the health service in January.
Hospital notes clinical and
research achievements
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear
Hospital cemented its reputation as a world leader in specialist eye, ear, nose
and throat healthcare in 2007 with groundbreaking medical procedures and
research.
Award for Peter Mac legal
services
The Peter MacCallum Cancer
Centre has received an Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) award
for its world-first Cancer Patients’ Legal Assistance Program conducted in
collaboration with law firm Baker and McKenzie.
Australia Day honour for
Professor Yu
Southern Health’s Professor
Victor Yu has been awarded the title Member of the Order of Australia for his
dedication to neonatal intensive care.
Volunteer Guides needed for new
hospital
The Royal Women’s Hospital is
recruiting 200 volunteer guides to help patients and visitors find their way
around the new hospital in Parkville.
Award for emergency department
Western Hospital’s Emergency
Department took out the Australasian Emergency Department of the Year Award at
the 2007 College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) conference.
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Community Health
Refugee action plan gets the
thumbs up
A progress report on health and
wellbeing services provided to refugees and asylum seekers shows Victoria
continues to lead the way nationally.
Community Services
SIDS forum promotes safe
sleeping education
More than 300 people,
representing acute and mental health, drug and alcohol, housing, child
protection, family services and community service organisations attended a
forum organised by the SIDS Working Group.
Dinner celebrates foster care
contribution
Southern Metropolitan Region
volunteer foster carers were guests at a Department of Human Services and
agency-hosted dinner Southern Golf Club, Keysborough.
Aged Care
Mornington centre to meet future
needs
The $22.7 million first stage of
the Mornington Peninsula’s aged care redevelopment is now complete with the
first 60 patients moving in to the new Mornington Centre.
Citizenship dream come true
Fifty-nine years after arriving
in Australia, Rochester Hostel resident Monica Buck has received her Australian
Citizenship.
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Housing
New Director of Housing
Margaret Crawford has been
appointed Director of Housing and Executive Director of Housing and Community
Building.
Choice for public housing
tenants
An innovative program will allow
Aboriginal public housing tenants to have their tenancies managed by their own
community.
Water-wise the key for ‘green
thumbs’
Green thumb Benigna Osses has
won the award for best individual water-wise plot for her community garden at
the Northcote high-rise public housing estate as part of the Victoria in Bloom
competition.
Rural and Regional Health
Rural health conference
The 3rd Biennial Rural Health
Conference will focus on chronic disease.
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