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Residential Aged Care Coronial Communique

Robbo March 18, 2010 Drug Information

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...

Opioid Equivalence Part 1 – RGH E-Bulletin

Robbo March 17, 2010 Drug Information

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...

Wreck Of The Week

Robbo March 16, 2010 Odd Stuff

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:

Indigenous News Update – Intervention

Robbo March 16, 2010 Indigenous News Update

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...

10 out of 10 Deadly Health Stories

Robbo March 15, 2010 Aboriginal Health Service

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...

Some insights from the health impact assessment of the NT Intervention

Croakey March 14, 2010 Indigenous Health

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...

Part 1: How to save billions in health costs – John Menadue

Croakey March 10, 2010 Health Inequalities

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 presents its work at GlobeMed Summit 2010

admin March 7, 2010 Logistics And Management

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 featured on Harvard’s Health and Human Rights Open Forum

admin March 6, 2010 Logistics And Management

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...

What the journos should ask Rudd at the Press Club re health reform

Croakey March 2, 2010 Health Inequalities

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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Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) National Conference

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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