Trish Worth
This section of the website contains media releases from January 1998 to December 1998 for Trish Worth.
Date: 19/8/1998
Title: Labor figures on health and GST wrong
Description:
False and misleading information being peddled by the Federal Shadow Health Minister about how the proposed GST will affect health consumers is unnecessarily frightening people.
Date: 17/8/1998
Title: Working together to beat measles
Description:
Thousands of primary school age children across South Australia are being vaccinated against measles from today.
Date: 12/8/1998
Title: Breast implant information booklet
Description:
The Breast Implant Information Booklet, an up-to-date guide to enable women to make careful and informed decisions about whether to have breast implants, has just been released by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Date: 4/8/1998
Title: Australian medical device requirements streamlined
Description:
A streamlined guide to regulations has been produced to make it easier for sponsors of medical devices to apply for listing or registration on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods before devices are marketed.
Date: 4/8/1998
Title: Australian medical device requirements streamlined
Description:
A streamlined guide to regulations has been produced to make it easier for sponsors of medical devices to apply for listing or registration on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods before devices are marketed.
Date: 25/7/1998
Title: Greater choice in 'low risk' medicines
Description:
The marketing of some complementary medicines in Australia will be made easier following changes to regulations under the Therapeutic Goods Act, announced today by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Family Services and Federal Member for Adelaide, Trish Worth.
Date: 24/7/1998
Title: Funding for local sporting group
Description:
A local sporting organisation is receiving a significant financial boost following the near record allocation of funding for sport in this year's Federal Budget.
Date: 24/7/1998
Title: $408,000 to help generate local jobs
Description:
More jobs will be created in and around Adelaide over the next 2 years following a $408,000 injection of funds from the Federal Government.
Date: 24/7/1998
Title: Alcohol labelling - community to have say
Description:
The Federal Member for Adelaide and Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Family Services, Trish Worth, has welcomed the findings of a survey by the Australian Medical Association in relation to the labelling of alcoholic drink containers.
Date: 22/7/1998
Title: Pharmaceutical companies on alert for PNG
Description:
Pharmaceutical manufacturers operating in Australia will be urged to donate urgently needed medical supplies to Papua New Guinea as soon as it's known exactly what is required according to the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Family Services and Federal Member for Adelaide, Trish Worth.
Date: 25/6/1998
Title: Think positive, or SA may miss the train
Description:
South Australians have been urged to channel their energy into supporting the Adelaide to Darwin railway line instead of being distracted by a new proposal in its very early stages of development.
Date: 11/6/1998
Title: Funding to promote healthy lifestyles for seniors
Description:
The Federal Government has approved $37,000 in funding for an Adelaide project aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles for older people.
Date: 7/6/1998
Title: Funding boost for war veterans home
Description:
The Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Bruce Scott, and the Member for Adelaide, Trish Worth, today announced a $1.7 million Federal Government funding boost for the War Veterans Home at Myrtle Bank.
Date: 5/6/1998
Title: Make a difference on World Environment Day
Description:
The Federal Member for Adelaide, the Hon. Trish Worth, has urged the people of Adelaide to use World Environment Day to turn over a new leaf for the environment.
Date: 4/6/1998
Title: Committee recommends against 'drug free'
Description:
A special committee set up to look at use of the term "drug free" in medicines advertising has handed down an interim report to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services, the Hon. Trish Worth.
Date: 3/6/1998
Title: Funding boost for Adelaide child care centres
Description:
Six Adelaide child care centres will receive a face lift thanks to Federal Government funding announced today.
Date: 2/6/1998
Title: Funding for aged care in Adelaide
Description:
Older people living in Adelaide will have better access to community care services following a funding boost under the Federal Government's Aged Care Program.
Date: 25/5/1998
Title: New chairman for Australia New Zealand Food Authority
Description:
Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Family Services and Member for Adelaide, Trish Worth, today announced the appointment of the Hon. Michael MacKellar as the new part-time Chairman of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority.
Date: 6/5/1998
Title: $95,000 to assist unique SA firm
Description:
Unemployed South Australians, the environment, community health generally and those living in under developed countries are all set to benefit from $95,000 of Federal Government funding which will assist local company, Overseas Pharmaceutical Aid for Life (OPAL), to relocate from its facilities at Ridleyton to the Old Tubemakers site at Kilburn.
Date: 1/5/1998
Title: Food hygiene standards: time to have your say
Description:
Consumers, the food industry, Government and professional associations are urged to have their say about draft national hygiene Standards with one week left to go for public submissions.
Date: 1/5/1998
Title: Head of prescribing service announced
Description:
Sydney pharmacist, Lynn Weekes, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the newly-established National Prescribing Service (NPS).
Date: 1/5/1998
Title: Greater access to anti-cancer drug
Description:
Women with ovarian cancer are set to benefit from greater access to a key anti-cancer drug.
Date: 28/4/1998
Title: Where are the facts?
Description:
The Member for Adelaide and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services, Trish Worth, has again challenged the ALP Candidate for Adelaide to present the facts to support her assertions about the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, nursing home fees and dental health.
Date: 24/4/1998
Title: New breast clinic
Description:
A new specialist private clinic in Adelaide, which has the potential to save more women with breast diseases including cancer, has been enthusiastically welcomed.
Date: 22/4/1998
Title: Drugs in driving study
Description:
A major study has just begun to examine the frequency and role of alcohol and other drugs in non fatal road crashes and develop ways of reducing them.
Date: 20/4/1998
Title: Dr. Shopping
Description:
The incidence of Dr. Shopping will be examined today at a workshop in North Adelaide attended by representatives of medical and pharmaceutical bodies, medical practitioners and drug and alcohol rehabilitation organisations.
Date: 15/4/1998
Title: General practitioners influence prescribing for the better
Description:
General practitioners have been appointed to top jobs within the National Prescribing Service (NPS), a newly incorporated body which promotes better prescribing practices.
Date: 12/4/1998
Title: Keep bacteria at bay over Easter: safe food tips
Description:
Over the Easter break, Australians need to think carefully about food safety when packing food in their cars, throwing sausages on the barbie or reheating leftovers.
Date: 30/3/1998
Title: Health consumers being misled
Description:
Inferences that just because a medicine may be older or cheaper it is less safe or less effective are completely false and misleading.
Date: 28/3/1998
Title: Walk against want
Description:
Walking is good for your health, fitness and general wellbeing but it can also help raise much needed funds for a worthy cause.
Date: 27/3/1998
Title: 'Drug free' committee
Description:
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services, Trish Worth, today announced the establishment of a special Committee to examine whether the use of the term drug free is appropriate when advertising certain medicinal products, and what alternatives might be used to accurately promote such products.
Date: 24/3/1998
Title: Motion shows continuing commitment to Cyprus
Description:
A senior member of the Federal Liberal Government has reaffirmed her continuing commitment to the Republic of Cyprus and to all Cypriots living and working in Australia.
Date: 24/3/1998
Title: Better health from new service
Description:
A new service, established to improve Australians' health through the better prescribing of medicines, could become a model for similar programs overseas.
Date: 5/2/1998
Title: Medicines advertising gives better choice / more information
Description:
Consumers will benefit from more choice and information about the medicines they use under changes to advertising regulations announced today by Commonwealth Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Therapeutic Goods, Trish Worth.
Date: 5/2/1998
Title: Rural nurses to benefit from new scholarship scheme
Description:
A new scholarship scheme which aims to provide greater opportunities for nurses in rural and remote areas was launched today by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services, the Hon. Trish Worth MP.
Date: 5/2/1998
Title: New head for Health Services Australia
Description:
Ms Vanessa Fanning has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of Health Services Australia Ltd.
Date: 23/1/1998
Title: National advertising campaign on medicines
Description:
A $4 million Federal Government funded advertising campaign will hit TV screens across Australia from this Sunday, urging people to have a say in the choice and cost of their medicines.
