The Hon Tony Abbott MHR - Media Items
Listed below are media items for The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Former Minister for Health and Ageing
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Previous MinistersAugust 2006
25 August 2006
Cancer specialist to head Cancer Australia
Professor David Currow will head the new statutory agency, Cancer Australia
25 August 2006
Bulk-billing reaches five year high
Figures for the June quarter 2006, released today, show GP bulk-billing has increased to 76.6 per cent - the highest level for five years and a rise for the 10th consecutive quarter.
24 August 2006
National Institute of Clinical Studies to join NHMRC
The National Institute of Clinical Studies will be incorporated into the NHMRC next year.
24 August 2006
Lantus and Levemir to be listed on PBS
Lantus® (insulin glargine) and Levemir® (insulin detemir), will be available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from 1 October 2006 for the treatment of patients with diabetes.
22 August 2006
Doorstop Interview - Herceptin listed on the PBS
Doorstop interview with the Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott.
22 August 2006
Herceptin
The Commonwealth Government will list Herceptin® (trastuzumab) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from 1 October 2006 for the treatment of patients with HER2 positive early stage breast cancer following surgery.
16 August 2006
Funding to boost immunisation outcomes
Immunisation services will be strengthened with the Australian Government increasing funding to state-based organisations through the General Practice Immunisation Incentives Scheme.
15 August 2006
Private health cover increases again
Figures released on 15 August by the Private Health Insurance Administration Council show an additional 17,000 Australians took out private health insurance in the June 2006 quarter. The increase means that 43 per cent of Australians have private health insurance cover.
10 August 2006
Government response to inquiry on substance abuse
The Australian Government on 10 August tabled its response to the Parliamentary Inquiry into substance abuse in Australia.
10 August 2006
Australians get public health cover in Belgium
Australia has entered into a reciprocal health agreement with Belgium, allowing each nation’s citizens to use the other’s public health facilities while travelling or staying for a short period in the other country. Reciprocal benefits will begin in 2008.
09 August 2006
Doorstop Interview at Parliament House
Doorstop Interview with the Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, at Parliament House, Canberra.
09 August 2006
Launch of the Report of the Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma - "Out of the Abyss"
Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, has launched the Report of the Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma "Out of the Abyss" at Parliament House, Canberra.
08 August 2006
Chlamydia projects to target high-risk groups
The Australian Government has committed $3.5 million to helping prevent chlamydia, the most frequently reported sexually transmissible infection in Australia.
07 August 2006
Doorstop Interview - National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
Doorstop interview with the Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott.
07 August 2006
Bowel cancer screening starts this week
The national bowel cancer screening program begins on 7 August, and people who turn 55 or 65 years of age between May 2006 and June 2008 will be sent a bowel cancer screening kit in the mail.
07 August 2006
New research shows Indigenous health improving
Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia on 7 August 2006 appears to confirm that the health of Indigenous Australians is improving.
04 August 2006
Safer medicines use in the community
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, and the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santo Santoro, said on 4 August that a new publication, Guiding principles for medication management in the community, should help improve the safe and effective use of medicines by the community.
02 August 2006
Speech by the Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, to the National Press Club
A Press Club address by Minister Abbott to tell hundreds of thousands of TV viewers what the Government has done, what the Government is doing and what the Government plans to do next.