ABC Local
flight for survival
ABC Local
(Paul Sutherland) There's a small community a few hundred kilometres south of Mount Isa that has no electricity except for a few generators, no water infrastructure, and numerous health problems. Only around 100 people live in the town, ...

E-health sites ready consumer pile-on
iT News
The delay comes after ten of 12 implementation sites were told by the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) on January 19 to halt work on "primary care desktop software development" due to "technical incompatibilities across versions" of the ...

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Port Lavaca to receive occupational medicine service through Twin Fountains ...
Victoria Advocate
For five years, Twin Fountains, under the direction of Dr. John McNeill, has provided medical and occupational health services in Victoria and the Crossroads. The two clinics in Victoria offer primary care, urgent care and occupational health services.

Call for overhaul of emergency ward wait times
Courier Mail
"The introduction of the four-hour rule encouraged hospitals as a whole to share the responsibility for, and help solve the problem of overcrowding in EDs,'' the researchers wrote in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. "This whole-of-hospital ...

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Stuff.co.nz
City doctors earn less than country cousins
Stuff.co.nz
COUNTRY ADVANTAGE: Figures released in the 2011 DHB Salary Survey show smaller district health boards came out on top for full-time medical and dental officers' salaries. Full-time specialists in the Wairarapa have the country's hightest average base ...

Stuff.co.nz
City doctors earn less than country cousins
Stuff.co.nz
COUNTRY ADVANTAGE: Figures released in the 2011 DHB Salary Survey show smaller district health boards came out on top for full-time medical and dental officers' salaries. House prices in Auckland are around double those in South Canterbury, ...

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From the brink of closure 3 years ago, affordable primary care clinic now ...
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Three years after a budget deficit nearly shut down Amistad Community Health Center, the primary care clinic that treats some of the region's poorest has rebounded. George Gongora/Special to the Caller-Times Jamie Miglini, director of resource ...

Globe and Mail
Why not try after-hours care the Dutch way?
Globe and Mail
The study, Strengthening Health Systems Through Innovation, examines the lessons Canada could learn from seven comparator countries – the US, Britain, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland. It notes that while developed countries ...
Statistics don't tell B.C.'s real health storyVictoria Times Colonist

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Ipsen's fourth quarter and full year 2011 sales and other significant developments
MarketWatch (press release)
Marc de Garidel added: "In spite of an ever toughening healthcare environment, especially in the French primary care space with the recent notice of the delisting of Tanakan(R) on March 1,2012, Ipsen will continue work on finding the best possible ...

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South-west is fat - and getting fatter
Warrnambool Standard
South West Primary Care Partnership health promotion officer Karyn Knight said the obesity rate in the region was an issue which was not going away. “It's a hot topic at a national, state and regional level,” she said. “The projected rates and trends ...

CMAJ
Overhauling health care Down Under
CMAJ
Few developed nations in recent history have sought such systemic reform to its health care system as Australia, which over the course of the past four years has squabbled over jurisdictional issues, funding, primary care reform and a host of other ...

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Hospital hiring of physicians picks up steam
American Medical News
Health systems also are looking at how to hold onto their existing doctors as competition for their services heats up. By Victoria Stagg Elliott, amednews staff. Posted Jan. 30, 2012. The only reason a physician wouldn't be able to find a hospital job, ...

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Desperate for GPs
Land
The only applicants were foreign doctors – good enough Denman has said – not skilled enough according to Hunter New England Health (HNEH). Such a medical officer would require supervision that is not available in Denman. By comparison Muswellbrook has ...

PM: Speech – State of the Nation
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
We also have a busy agenda in health, where we are working with local primary care networks throughout the country to provide free after-hours GP visits to children under six. More people will get elective surgery, and we're reducing waiting times for ...

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Patti's Inspiration
Terrace Standard
The program lets you take charge of your own health because when you become a cancer patient, the hospital and primary care can take over. In Barnes' case, it gave her and her family ownership of her healing, said Merrill. “It gives you control over ...

Busby: Innovation is key to improving health care
Calgary Herald
But most of the provincial premiers who gathered in Victoria last week saw it as a provocative snub. After loud throat clearing, the provinces announced plans for a joint research initiative into the health funding system and opportunities for learning ...

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Innovation is the key to improving health care
Calgary Herald
But most of the provincial premiers who gathered in Victoria last week saw it as a provocative snub. After loud throat clearing, the provinces announced plans for a joint research initiative into the health funding system and opportunities for learning ...

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Oz stalls e-health trials
Register
The software, part of the introduction of Australia's personal e-health records, was being piloted at a number of sites in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and the Northern Territory, to give the software a “real world” outing during the implementation.
E-health key trial halted by specifications glitchThe Australian
Government struggling to meet e-health deadlineiT News

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Busby: Innovation is key to improving health care
Calgary Herald
In return for an increase in transfers in 2004, the provinces agreed to reach a set of health reform goals that included reduced wait times, primary-care reform and strengthened programs to address the problem of catastrophic drug expenditures.

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Vital signs look good after GP cash boost
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
BY DEBORAH FIELD GP and allied health services in St George and Sutherland Shire could soon be improved to the tune of $600000. The money is part of the federal government's primary care infrastructure grant program, introduced in 2010 to increase ...