Home

Items Tagged With "Health"

Better Health, Better Hospitals

Blog post by Nicola Roxon
posted: Wednesday Mar 03, 2010, 10:30pm

When it comes to the health and well being of all Australians, Labor has always given this top priority. It was a Labor Government that introduced Medicare and the Pharmaceuticals Benefits Schemes to make medicines more affordable. 

Today, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, continued that legacy by announcing the establishment of a single, unified National Health and Hospitals Network (NHHN) that will deliver better health services and better hospitals for all Australians.

More...

Five million extra GP services (News)

Analysis by the Department of Health of the Government’s $632 million investment to train 1200 new GPs a year has shown that the move will deliver around five million extra GP services across Australia.

More >

Analysis by the Department of Health of the Government’s $632 million investment to train 1200 new GPs a year has shown that the move will deliver around five million extra GP services across Australia.

Those services are much needed in all parts of the country, but particularly so in rural and regional areas.  With half the new places to be provided in rural and regional Australia, this will go a long way to reliving the pressure on stretched local GPs.

A landmark day for Australian nurses and midwives (News)

Today the Senate has passed historic legislation that provides long deserved recognition of Australia’s highly skilled nurses and midwives.These reforms will give nurse practitioners and midwives access to the Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for the first time.

More >

Today the Senate has passed historic legislation that provides long deserved recognition of Australia’s highly skilled nurses and midwives.

These reforms will give nurse practitioners and midwives access to the Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for the first time.

Building a National Health and Hospitals Network - Training record numbers of junior doctors in general practice. (News)

The Rudd Government will invest $148 million to ensure that more junior doctors can experience a career in general practice before they become a fully fledged doctor.The Government’s investments will expand overall training capacity in the system, as well as encourage more graduating students to choose a career in general practice..

More >

*Joint media release with Minister for Health Nicola Roxon

The Rudd Government will invest $148 million to ensure that more junior doctors can experience a career in general practice before they become a fully fledged doctor.

The Government’s investments will expand overall training capacity in the system, as well as encourage more graduating students to choose a career in general practice.

Building a National Health and Hospitals Network - Training a record number of GPs (News)

The Rudd Government will invest $339 million to increase GP training places to record levels to deliver better health and better hospitals for all Australians.

More >

*Joint media release with Minister for Health Nicola Roxon
 

Building a National Health and Hospitals Network - Training record numbers of specialist doctors (News)

The Rudd Government will invest $145 million to train more specialist doctors where the community needs them, to deliver better health and better hospitals for all Australians.

More >

*Joint media release with Minister for Health Nicola Roxon
 

Building a National Health and Hospitals Network - Training a record number of doctors (News)

The Rudd Government will invest $632 million to train a record number of doctors - to tackle doctor shortages, expand capacity and deliver better health and better hospitals.In total, the Rudd Government’s investments will deliver an additional 5,500 new or training General Practitioners, 680 medical specialists, and 5400 pre-vocational general practice program (PGPPP) training places over the next ten years.

More >

The Rudd Government will invest $632 million to train a record number of doctors - to tackle doctor shortages, expand capacity and deliver better health and better hospitals..

In total, the Rudd Government’s investments will deliver an additional 5,500 new or training General Practitioners, 680 medical specialists, and 5400 pre-vocational general practice program (PGPPP) training places over the next ten years.

Due to an historic lack of investment, we inherited a situation where workforce shortages are impacting on 59 per cent of all Australians.

Dire consequences if health reforms blocked (News)

Recent figures show that the mix of an ageing and growing population, rising levels of chronic disease and increasing cost of medical treatments is going to weigh heavily on our future health and hospital system.

More >

Recent figures show that the mix of an ageing and growing population, rising levels of chronic disease and increasing cost of medical treatments is going to weigh heavily on our future health and hospital system.

Expenditure on chronic disease is expected to grow rapidly between 2002-03 to 2032-33, with the cost of treating diabetes alone projected to increase 436 per cent, from $1.6 billion to $8.6 billion.

The average health spending by the Commonwealth Government per person per year is projected to grow in real terms from $2,290 to $7,210 by 2050.

Local health in Swan

Blog post by Tim Hammond
posted: Monday Mar 15, 2010, 9:47am

I was out doorknocking in Wilson the other day.  Wilson is a suburb in my electorate of Swan in Western Australia, that has a diverse mix of people  -  Australians who have emigrated fairly recently, students from overseas (it is quite close to Curtin University, the 5th largest  University in Australia); families who are doing it tough and older Australians -  generally the sort of mix you would expect to see in a typical Aussie suburb.

More...

Healthcare for older Australians

Blog post by Justine Elliot
posted: Friday Mar 12, 2010, 5:41pm

Older Australians will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the Government’s health care reforms – particularly through the creation of Local Hospital Networks.

Care will extend beyond the hospital doors. The Networks will work with local primary health and aged care providers, to ensure that locally responsive and tailored care is delivered so that older people receive the care they need when they need it.

More...

Syndicate content