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General News
Call to action on nurse abuse
The Government is tackling workplace violence in nursing with the
establishment of the Victorian Taskforce On Violence in Nursing.
Taskforce on nurse violence named
MP Maxine Morand will chair the Victorian Taskforce on Violence
in Nursing.
Health website gets better with
age
As it celebrates its fifth anniversary, the Better Health Channel
boasts the answer to more than 2,000 health-related questions, 1,600
articles on healthy living and health conditions, 38,000 health
professionals and services and 300 healthy recipes.
Students survey drug diversion
services
Second-year Welfare Studies students at South West Institute of
TAFE in Warrnambool are surveying awareness of the Drug Diversion
Initiative (DDI) in the area.
Sittin’ in the morning sun, sittin’
when the evening come
One wintry day last June, up-and-coming independent film-maker
Genevieve Bailey chanced on a group of friends on St Kilda Pier.
$2.5 million for anti-bedsore mattresses
Hospital beds across the State will be fitted with special anti-bedsore
mattresses, as part of an initiative that will improve hospital
care and save the system up to $10 million a year.
New home for people with acquired
brain injury
The first residents have moved into St Martin’s Court supported
accommodation in Beaumaris for people with an acquired brain injury.
Short course offers plane language
Aviation medicine specialist David Newman will lead a Monash Medical
School Passenger Fitness to Fly short course at the Alfred
Hospital.
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Metropolitan Health
New ward, theatres at Northern Hospital
The Government has responded to the growing population of Melbourne’s
outer northern suburbs with a major expansion of the Northern Hospital.
Cool author rules at Peter Mac children’s
service
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre marked Education Week by naming children’s
author Phil Kettle as Patron of its Paediatric Service.
College recognises a handy Austin
surgeon
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has recognised Austin
Health’s Director of Cardiac Surgery Professor Brian Buxton
with an Award for Excellence in Surgery at the annual scientific
congress in Melbourne.
New era for expanded Williamstown Hospital
Williamstown Hospital services will be expanded and its elective
surgery capacity increased with around 1,000 extra operations every
year, Premier Steve Bracks has announced.
Triple CD is all soul
A unique, triple CD set contains original songs by people whose
lives have been touched by cancer.
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Public Health
$1.9 million to fight killer diseases
Victoria’s top public health laboratories have received a
$1.9 million funding boost to help detect Legionnaires’ and
meningococcal disease and to screen for and diagnose cancer and
genetic conditions.
Kath Taylor: Our public health hero
The selfless dedication shown to others by Dr Kath Taylor was acknowledged
by her family, church community, friends and members of Victoria’s
public health profession at her recent funeral.
Focus on infectious diseases research
New cardio-vascular research at the Victorian HIV/AIDS Service,
part of the Alfred’s Infectious Diseases Unit, is investigating
the cause of an increase in heart disease and other major complications
of life-saving drugs.
Conference focuses on drug use impact
The Anex 2004 Harm Reduction Conference will centre on the impact
of illicit drug use on the real contexts and priorities of people’s
lives.
Disability Services
Rhonda Galbally heads Disability
Advisory Council
Internationally-renowned community advocate Rhonda Galbally has
been appointed to chair Victoria’s revamped Disability Advisory
Council of Victoria (DACV).
Early to rise no longer applies in
north-east
Older people with disabilities who take part in Central Access
Limited day programs in Hume Region are starting their days at a
more leisurely pace.
Monash provides autism training
The Government will provide $400,000 over four years to Monash
University to deliver specialist autism training to early childhood
workers across Victoria.
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Community Care
Program helps Geelong parents
A new parenting program will educate, advise and provide peer support
to vulnerable parents in Geelong.
Foster care body seeks a home
The Foster Care Association of Victoria wants to co-locate with
an agency that works with families and children.
Learn and play program targets Gippsland
families
‘A program that has made a world of difference,’ says
Janine, a mother of two about the Gippsland Parentzone program Learn
and Play.
$80,000 boost for Victoria’s
Neighbourhood Houses
The Government will provide an extra $80,000 to support Victoria’s
Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres.
Workshops a feature of conference
The Foster Care Association of Victoria 2004 State Conference will
feature workshops on kinship care, challenging behaviours, Take
Two, sexual abuse and indigenous caring.
CWA puts the bite on problem gambling
THE Country Women’s Association has tried to melt away the
stigma of problem gambling with a chocolate challenge at the Boundary
Road, East Geelong, branch hall.
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Community Health
Walking challenge a success by any
measure
A Walking Challenge by staff of Stawell Regional Health to local
business and community groups has been taken up with gusto.
Aged Care
Never too late for a date with society
Every girl treasures memories of her debut, no matter how old she
is.
Palliative care places on offer
A new training program will give primary health and aged care professionals
the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in palliative care.
Council chamber a hive of activity
More than 200 seniors took over Victoria’s Legislative Council
chamber for a ReActive Ageing debate that became an exercise
in information, imparted with humour.
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Housing
Gardens to spring into life
The Office of Housing’s Victoria in Bloom initiative will
improve gardens on public and community-managed housing estates
across Victoria and boost tenants’ sense of community pride.
Long Gully volunteer wins Penington
award
Pam Power of Long Gully in Bendigo received the 2004 Frances Penington
Community Award during Housing Week.
Plan tackles youth homelessness head
on
A series of immediate measures to tackle youth homelessness, backed
by an $8.8 million State Government funding commitment, have been
addressed in a Youth Homeless Action Plan released by Housing Minister
Candy Broad.
Rural and Regional Health
Emergency trauma seminar at Latrobe
Hospital
Health professionals from all over Gippsland took part in a major
Emergency and Trauma Seminar at Latrobe Regional Hospital.
Hospital marks Nurses Week with presentation
of award
Mark Fairbairn has received Latrobe Regional Hospital Chief Nursing
Officer’s Award for Professional Excellence.
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