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Australians battling with prostate cancer to benefit from new PBS listing
Adult with meningococcal disease 24 May
New life changing treatment for dwarfism added to pbs
Drinking fountains in every town won’t fix all our water issues – but it’s a healthy start
Therapeutic Goods Instrument 2023
Birthing healthy and strong babies on Country
Instrument of arrangement: Use of computer program to make decisions, July 2018
Female Football Week kicks off for 2023
First meeting of Premier’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Council
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Note Progress in Addressing the Age of Marriage in the United Kingdom,…
Funding secured for Hummingbird House
New Kimberley-acquired Murray Valley encephalitis case confirmed
Electronic prescribing to continue free of charge for doctors
Report on Medical Research Future Fund support for medical research and innovation
North West maternity services transition to be brought forward
Patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions vulnerable to long term opioid use
National nursing workforce strategy for Australia
Delivering Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in Victoria
Scholarships to grow mental health peer workforce
New report calls on national cell and gene therapy plan
First Western Australia Medicare Urgent Care Clinic provider selected
Milestone reached in LGH helipad project
National first to transform primary care for nurse practitioners
Release of Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan
Midwives go green
Government plans to use NDIS bulk-buying power to help save billions – but they shouldn’t put products before people
Lifting standard of food and nutrition in aged care
Insights into the Medical Research Future Fund Coronavirus Research Response
PBAC backs ongoing access to low-dose asthma puffer for Aussie kids
Consider career in mental health
Chief Health Officer Update 12 May
More medicine, for less
Assistant Minister McBride – speech at the Mental Health Australia Policy Forum – 11 May 2023
We worked out how many tobacco lobbyists end up in government, and vice versa. It’s a lot
Funding boost advances research on cancer vaccine
Corruption experts condemn Andrews over IBAC report
Millions of patients will lose unless Government guarantees no one is worse off under Budget cuts
Nutrition in aged care gets 12.9 million boost
RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PATIENTS WELCOMED IN FEDERAL BUDGET
Budget 2023-⁠24: Delivering the largest ever pay rise to aged care workers
Budget 2023- 24: Building stronger Medicare
Scientists gather on Swan for WA’s research showcase
Mosquito warning as new Murray Valley encephalitis case found in WA
Call for Expressions of Interest: WA Health and Medical Research Strategy – Sector Advisory Panel
New funds will tackle Indigenous smoking. But here’s what else we know works for quit campaigns
CPC23: MRNs extended until 2024
Protecting Australians against heart disease
Statement on 60-day medicine dispensing