People suffering from bleeding disorders will be able to better monitor the state of their health and help treat their condition through a new mobile application.
Category: Health & Social Services
Shergold to chair aged care sector reform committee
Professor Peter Shergold will chair the new Aged Care Sector Committee, which will work with government as it implements aged care reforms.
NSW Planning simplifies fire sprinkler regulations for aged care
The NSW Government’s move to simplify the compulsory retrofitting of fire sprinkler safety systems in residential facilities has been welcomed by the state’s providers.
Legal lessons from the Queensland Health Payroll Report
By Michael Grosser* The Queensland Government’s procurement practices and the acceptance of the role of probity advisors have evolved considerably since 2007 when it commenced the procurement activity for the…
Dentists drill councils over water fluoridation decay
By Dr Karin Alexander* In the 1930s, American scientists and public health researchers made a simple, but profoundly important discovery. People living in towns with around one part per million…
Battle looms over Defence health services
[Editor’s Note: Both Medibank Health Service and the Department of Defence dispute and reject the assertions made by the Australian Medical Association in this article, which was originally published in…
Queensland councils cleared to take out bat colonies
By Paul Hemsley The Queensland government has given councils the all-clear to take aim at “problem” flying foxes in an effort to mitigate the potential health hazards they present. The…
Queensland doctor dispute goes federal
By Julian Bajkowski The industrial relations row over moves by the Queensland government to force the state’s doctors onto individual workplace contracts has escalated to a national level after the…
CPSU cold on voluntary demotion offer to avoid retrenchments
By Julian Bajkowski The conspicuous collapse of the Coalition’s promise to slash 12,000 federal public service jobs through natural attrition has been quickly followed by revelations that parts of the…
Springborg dials-up a second opinion on hospital award dispute
By Paul Hemsley A controversial plan to try and move Queensland’s entire public hospital senior medical staff onto individual workplace contracts by 1st July 2014 is continuing to generate indigestion…