The Liberals Jeremy Hanson has the worrying news that process seems to have broken down for elective surgery:
70 per cent of the Canberra Hospital’s elective surgery admission requests are not properly authorised, according to information obtained by the Canberra Liberals. ACT Shadow Health Minister Jeremy Hanson said a Freedom of Information request shows that the [...]

[ 30 May, 2012; 12:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] The RSI and Overuse Injury Association of the ACT presents a free seminar:

Dealing with Depression: For people with a chronic condition, with Professor Kathy Griffiths.

Room 6, Griffin Centre
20 Genge Street, Canberra City

You are invited to join us until 2pm for a light lunch following the seminar.

Professor Kathy Griffiths is the Director of the Centre for [...]

[ 12 June, 2012; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] A Canberra Skeptics Event

Venue: Lecture Theatre, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton,
ACT 2601

Members Free/Non-Members Gold Coin Donation

The topic of illicit drugs in Australia is a topic that attracts continued controversy.  Some argue that drug policy should continue to remain based on the principle of prohibition while others argue that such prohibition should be repealed.

Canberra [...]

[ 19 May, 2012; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]

This in from the ANU:

The John Curtin School of Medical Research CLINICAL RESEARCH OPEN DAY

We invite you to come to our clinical research open day. View the newly opened clinical research suites with a guided tour of the laboratories and talk to a researcher about our studies on early childhood and adult obesity.

Learn about our [...]

Golden-Alpine sent in this message of woe in Kaleen.
See the infamous red notices? Take a picture and send them in to images@the-riotact.com .

The Auditor-General has announced just what she’s going to do with the health statistics scandal at the Canberra Hospital.
The objective of the audit is to provide an independent opinion to the ACT Legislative Assembly on:
• the circumstances associated with the alleged misreporting of Canberra Hosiptal Emergency Department performance information;
• the effectiveness of the Health [...]

The Greens are asking some sensible questions as to why teeth are excluded from publicly funded healthcare, and trying to get support for a fix up here in Canberra.
“It doesn’t make much sense that teeth should be excluded from the rest of the human body when it comes to healthcare,” Greens Health spokesperson, Amanda Bresnan [...]

The ACT Government’s ongoing efforts to teach you how to be a parent have advanced a pace.
Sometime overnight a media release went onto the Open Government website advising that yesterday was the start of the smoking in cars ban:
ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Health Katy Gallagher MLA today welcomed the start of the [...]

The Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson is quite excited by a tacit admission that Katy Gallagher and Meredith Hunter were circling their wagons before the health statistics scandal started to break:
“It is now apparent why, after Katy Gallagher and Meredith Hunter refused to deny a secret meeting between the two of them about the scandal that occurred [...]

The ABC has the news that Chief Minister Gallagher has been forced to call in the Auditor-General to investigate the manipulation of health statistics (in particular Emergency Department numbers).
With the Chief Minister having staked much political capital on improvements being reported from the hospital it is a particularly bad look that she’s now admitted the [...]

Following on from the shock announcement of health statistics being manipulated at Canberra Hospital the Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson reveals the numbers are being re-crunched at Calvary Hospital.
Bear in mind that millions in funding from the Commonwealth can flow from performance in these statistics.
“I received an email last week from a private email address which suggested [...]

Following on from this morning’s bombshell admission that numbers from the Canberra Hospital have been fabricated, possibly at considerable cost to Commonwealth performance funding, the Liberals’ Zed Seselja and Jeremy Hanson are scenting blood and demanding an independent investigation:
ACT Shadow Health Minister Jeremy Hanson said Katy Gallagher’s dishonesty with Canberrans over the health system must [...]

Health Director-General Dr Peggy Brown has been wheeled out to catch bullets for the Chief Minister and admit someone’s been playing silly buggers with Canberra Hospital’s Emergency Department numbers:
“This is a serious matter affecting the accuracy of our data reporting, but I would like to stress that it in no way reflects on the quality [...]

Well with my life seriously sucking right now I went to ask for help. Over the past 6 months I’ve fronted up at the hospital to ask for mental health help. Each time I’ve been interviewed, assessed, asked lots of questions, and sent home then not called back again till weeks later. This time I [...]

I was reading the Times last Wednesday when I noticed this article - Car parking push at Calvary. The gist of the article is Glenn McCrea (who’s running in the local elections) has passed a petition around Belconnen that got 1200 signatures to get more parking at Calvary. It was a shock to see this in [...]

Tr0jan has sent in the latest prohibition notice sighting, this time slugging Kinglsey’s Weston Creek outlet.
But it seems the purveyors of “awesome chips” are not taking this lying down.
Tweeter Gavin Tapp has posted their retort:

Personally I’d prefer they fix their tiles and operate to a higher standard.

The ABC tells us the University of Canberra will be home to a new super clinic that will offer a variety of services including radiology, pathology, pharmacy and psychology services.
As well as giving students access to a wide range of medical care at their doorstep, Frances Shannon, acting Vice-Chancellor, believes it will also benefit [...]

Breif history is that I had my thyroid removed 10 years ago and have been on medication ever since. First couple of years on thyroxine thyroid medication were up and down, next 6 perfect. Last 2 have been up and down again with various symptoms, doctors appointments, blood tests every 6 weeks, adjustment of medication then go [...]

Burmese curry = good, Burmese powder not so much as ACT Health has issued a warning that they contain lead and arsenic.
The ACT Government Health Directorate advises the community to avoid the use of Burmese traditional powders at present, while an investigation into their safety is conducted.
These powders are sometimes used to assist digestion [...]

I recently spent over a week in TCH. The care was great I cannot fault any of the Drs or nursing staff who did an outstanding job. (apart from one young,  female anaesthetic registrar who was so incredibly rude, banging the side of my bed and demanding I listen to her, much to the horror [...]

Jeremy Hanson has seized upon the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare numbers on the mental health workforce:
This week’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare mental health workforce report shows that the ACT has the lowest number of mental health nurses per capita in the country. ACT Shadow Health Minister Jeremy Hanson said [...]

Yesterday the Liberals Jeremy Hanson was quoting Australian Institute of Health and Welfare research on medical practitioner numbers declining.
Today Chief Minister Gallagher is letting us know she’s got a good feeling:
“I have been hearing anecdotally, that there has been an improvement in local GPs taking on new clients and an increase in GP numbers,” the [...]

Jewel Of India in the Canberra Centre food court is the latest food business to feel the wrath of the macho new Health Department, as local hospitality operators duck for cover – and their cleaning cloths – to avoid further closures. Paul Dugdale stated in the Canberra Times after the closure of high profile cafes [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher has announced that her preferred option for a new hospital is within a stone’s throw of the existing Calvary hospital:
The report assessed four potential sites: including the Calvary Hospital Campus, the University of Canberra, Gungahlin Town Centre, and Block 12 Section 78 Nicholls. The report identified the University of Canberra as the [...]

The Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson is asking where 13% of the ACT’s medical practitioner workforce went between 2009 and 2010.
“Canberra already has the lowest number of GPs per capita, and this data shows medical practitioners are leaving the ACT health sector in droves,” Mr Hanson said today.
“The ACT also has the lowest bulk billing rates, and [...]

I have extremely bad posture and this is due to the fact that I constantly at a computer.
Over the years it has been getting worse and I am suffering headaches as a result (plus I look like the hunchbacks’ sister!) I’ve tried oestopathy and don’t particularly want to keep paying a fortune for half [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is calling for an end to to the Catholic driven taboo on discussing suicide:
ACT Greens Health spokesperson, Amanda Bresnan MLA, will today call on the ACT Legislative Assembly to break the silence on suicide, by having figures on the ACT suicide toll released to the public biannually.
“There is a great deal [...]

The Industrial Relations Minister Chris Bourke has launched a new asbestos awareness website:
The ACT Government’s Asbestos Awareness website has been entirely revamped and relaunched today. It is aimed at home owners, home renovators, tradespeople, the community in general and people who own or control non-residential buildings.
It includes
– which suburbs are most likely to have [...]

My teeth are filthy and need cleaning.
I would like to find a practice that has a dental hygienist as well as a good children’s dentist so the whole family can attend.
I would prefer to utilise a hygienist than an actual dentist to clean my teeth.
Do dental hygienists exist in [...]

The Liberal’s Jeremy Hanson is stealing a march on Katy Gallagher by pointing out why today’s opening of the adult mental health centre is not quite the triumph of Governance we will, at some point, be told it is:
ACT Labor will today finally open its continually re-announced adult mental health centre, despite claiming months [...]

With yet another family practice in Canberra’s South closing (Chifley Family Practice – moving to Ochre Health in Calwell) I was wondering if anyone had any information on Medical Centres in the Weston/Weston area?
I know that Waramanga Medical Centre is taking new patients and I’ve heard Fisher Family Practice are also, but I’d like to [...]

Not sure if it’s something to do with all the wet weather or CSIRO have left the top of one of their jars, but for the last week or so I have been getting badly bitten by very large mozzies during the daytime.
Went for a walk up Mount Rogers in Flynn on saturday and [...]