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Listed below are media items for The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Former Minister for Health and Ageing
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Previous MinistersMay 2009
31 May 2009
Australia recognised as leader on World No Tobacco Day
Australia’s leading role in including health warnings on cigarette packaging will be recognised internationally by the World Health Organisation tomorrow.
29 May 2009
Campaign Targets Sexually Transmitted Infections
A national campaign launched on 29 May aims to reduce the rate of sexually transmitted infections among Australians, especially young people and Indigenous people.
26 May 2009
Kidney Disease – Australia’s ‘Silent Killer’
Kidney Health Week is an opportunity for Australians to learn more about the dangers of kidney disease and how to avoid it.
25 May 2009
Taking Pressure off Canberra Hospital’s Emergency Department
The Australian Government is to provide $10 million to establish a ‘Walk-in Centre’ at the Canberra Hospital to help take pressure off its busy emergency department.
22 May 2009
Alert Level Raised to ‘CONTAIN’
The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, has advised that it is appropriate to raise Australia’s pandemic alert level to CONTAIN.
20 May 2009
More GPs, Health Workers for Far North Queensland Indigenous Communities
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon and Member for Leichhardt, Jim Turnour have announced that the Australian Government will provide almost $600,000 to improve Indigenous health care services in Far North Queensland.
20 May 2009
Health Boost for Cairns
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon and Member for Leichhardt, Jim Turnour have signed an agreement with Balance! Healthcare to establish the $5 million Cairns GP Super Clinic.
15 May 2009
Bulk-Billed Medicare Services Increase: March Quarter Results
Figures issued on 15 May show an increase in the percentage of Medicare services bulk-billed in the March quarter 2009.
15 May 2009
Health and Safety First Priority As Children Walk To School
Today (15 May) is Walk Safely to School Day – a national event to encourage primary school children to enjoy physical activity by walking to school.
14 May 2009
Post-Budget Speech, Australian Institute of Policy and Science Thursday 14 May 2009
13 May 2009
New Medical Research Centre for Brisbane
Queensland patients with cancer, diabetes, obesity and musculoskeletal disease will benefit from a new medical research centre to be built in Brisbane.
13 May 2009
Brisbane to Get Oral Health Centre
Queensland dental patients will have access to a purpose-built, $104 million Oral Health Centre in Brisbane, funded by the Australian Government in the 2009-10 Budget.
13 May 2009
New Facility Will Provide World-Class Brain Research
Brain research in Australia will take an important step forward with a $60 million 2009-10 Budget allocation to build a world-class brain research centre at the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research.
13 May 2009
Boost for WA high-care rehabilitation patients
Patients in WA will have improved access to quality rehabilitation care under a 2009-10 Budget proposal to replace the state’s rehabilitation unit, with a new facility at the Fiona Stanley Hospital.
13 May 2009
Budget funding for boost for Red Cross
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has received a major boost in the 2009-10 Budget, with funding to build a new principal blood manufacturing facility in Melbourne.
13 May 2009
Melbourne a centre of neuroscience research
Melbourne is set to become a centre of world-class neuroscience research.
13 May 2009
Victoria tissue bank funding to benefit nation
The Australian Government is allocating $13 million over three years to build a state-of-the-art tissue banking facility for the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria to manage the higher rates of tissue donation. The existing donor tissue bank is obsolete.
12 May 2009
Increasing competition in pathology and diagnostic imaging
The Australian Government is increasing competition and improving patient choice in the nation’s pathology and diagnostic imaging sectors.
12 May 2009
More support for bulk billing pathology and diagnostic imaging tests
The Australian Government is introducing bulk billing incentives to ensure all Australians have access to essential pathology and diagnostic imaging tests.
12 May 2009
Rebalancing support for private health insurance
The Australian Government is rebalancing policies supporting private health insurance – so that people with a greater capacity to pay for their own private health insurance do so.
12 May 2009
A sustainable Medicare safety net
The Australian Government will take action to ensure the extended Medicare safety net is used to benefit patients and reduce their costs.
12 May 2009
Modernising Medicare and supporting higher quality care
The Australian Government will modernise Medicare to ensure rebates encourage higher quality care and better reflect services and procedures.
12 May 2009
Over $200 million for closing the gap in Indigenous health
The Australian Government is investing $204.3 million in improved health care for Indigenous communities, helping to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
12 May 2009
Providing better access to medicines
The Australian Government will help thousands of Australians to access newly subsidised medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and life saving drugs.
12 May 2009
Nation-building – investing in health and medical research
The Australian Government will draw from the Health and Hospitals Fund to build and upgrade health and medical research and training facilities across the nation, and expand cancer research facilities.
12 May 2009
Nation-building – a hospital system for the future
The Australian Government will invest more than $1.5 billion to upgrade key hospital infrastructure across Australia – meaning better patient care, more support for the health workforce, and construction jobs.
12 May 2009
A world-class cancer care system
The Australian Government will invest a record $2 billion to build a world-class cancer care system.
12 May 2009
Providing more choice in maternity care – access to Medicare and PBS for midwives
Families will have greater choice in the type of care they wish to receive when having a baby, under a $120.5 million package of reforms to maternity services.
12 May 2009
Rudd Government confronts the rural health challenge
The Australian Government is improving health workforce shortages in rural and remote areas with a package of reforms that includes ‘the more remote you go, the greater the reward’ incentives.
12 May 2009
Investing in the health workforce – backing our doctors, nurses and midwives
The Australian Government is boosting the nation’s health workforce with a series of major investments to support our doctors, nurses and midwives.
12 May 2009
A new partnership – a new era in health and hospital reform
The Australian Government is tackling key pressure points in the public health system, providing more funding for public hospitals and to train doctors and nurses.
12 May 2009
Investing in the whole health system
The Australian Government is investing in the whole health system – across the whole country – to deliver better health outcomes for Australians, no matter where they live.
12 May 2009
Extended Medicare Safety Net Report
A report on the operation, effectiveness and implications of the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) has been tabled in both Houses of Parliament.
11 May 2009
Self-test Bowel Cancer Kits
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, expresses concern that the results provided to some participants in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program may not be accurate.
08 May 2009
Sorell GP Super Clinic Gets Go Ahead
The Australian Government has signed a contract with General Practice South for $2.5 million to establish the Sorell GP Super Clinic.
07 May 2009
World-Class Cancer Centre to Be Built in Parkville
A $1 billion world-class cancer centre will be built in Parkville to drive the next generation of progress in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.
05 May 2009
New Hand Hygiene Initiative Aims to Reduce Infections
A new hand hygiene initiative has been launched in a bid to reduce the antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ patient infections in hospitals.
03 May 2009
New PBS Listings to Treat Cancer
New listings on the PBS to come into effect from 1 May and 1 July will benefit people with renal cell cancer, colorectal cancer and breast cancer.
01 May 2009
Government Subsidises New Drugs on the PBS
The Government will subsidise new drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from 1 May and several other drugs, already listed on the PBS, will become available in new forms.