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The February Residential Aged Care Communiqué is out. This is a great resource that highlights selected cases that have been reported to the State Coroner’s Office that may interest the Aged Care Community. You can subscribe by email at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine with the...
Patients with either chronic or malignant pain, who have previously been stabilised on a particular opioid, may reach a point where opioid rotation is beneficial. Inadequate analgesia despite escalating doses, or the development of intolerable side effects, are valid indications to change the...
Bill Arnold has been delving into his archives and come up with another beautifully preserved wreck this time on the Birdsville Track near Cooper Creek. He thinks it may be a Ford Customline. A beautiful car it still even has the wood panelling tray intact Let others know you liked the post:
Home refurbishment ‘rip-off’ in Strategic Indigenous Housing & Infrastructure Program as amt of money for housing cut http://bit.ly/aWpQ6F Australian Indigenous intervention found to breach race obligations http://bit.ly/af82Zp St Vinnies scathing of government plan to make...
There have been many innovative programs that have worked in Indigenous Health. The hard part it ensuring you can keep obtaining funding to run them. Much of the funding is one off grants and won’t necessarily continue even if the health program has shown it can make a difference. The online...
On Friday, the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association released the long-awaited health impact assessment of the NT Emergency Response. You can find the full report here, and this is a Crikey article about it. Below are some extracts from the report which give a flavour of its contents: • Many...
In the first of two Croakey articles looking at how to cut health costs, John Menadue writes: “Successive governments in Australia have failed to examine and take action to curb rapidly rising costs and inefficiencies in healthcare. To address these problems would involve confronting special...
Nyaya was recently invited to deliver one of the “Partnerships in Global Health Equity” workshops at the 2010 GlobeMed Summit in Chicago. GlobeMed is a network of university students which partner with grassroots organizations to improve the health of people of the impoverished. This...
Nyaya’s work has been featured in an article and photo essay on the Harvard FXB Center’s Health and Human Rights Open Forum blog. Guest-writing for the blog, Dan Schwarz highlights the development of Nyaya’s work at Bayalpata Hospital, and documents many of the logistical...
Health reform is hitting the headlines, and the PM is due to address the National Press Club tomorrow at 12.30pm on Building Australia’s Future: Better Health, Better Hospitals. Croakey has put out a call to the Crikey Health and Medical Panel: what are the key questions journalists should ask...
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ALICE SPRINGS June 27-29, 2010 Aboriginal/Indigenous Health, Paediatrics
The Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) is organising a conference, with the aim to provide an opportunity for Indigenous organisations, policy makers, researchers, government representatives, non-government...
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