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Listed below are media items for The Hon Warren Snowdon MP, Former Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery
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Previous MinistersOctober 2009
30 October 2009
Providing More Doctors for the Bay
GPs in Batemans Bay will be offered retention grants of up to $12,000 a year under an Australian Government initiative to encourage them to stay working in the region.
29 October 2009
More Funding to Support Rural Health Infrastructure
The Australian Government will inject a further $6.1 million to improve local health infrastructure in 40 rural and remote communities throughout Australia.
16 October 2009
NT Doctors Included in Cash Retention Scheme
The Northern Territory’s general practitioners would be offered retention grants of between $2 500 and $12 000 under an Australian Government initiative to encourage them to stay in the territory.
16 October 2009
Sight-Saving Project to Continue in Alice Springs
Indigenous Australians in central Australia would continue to receive sight-saving eye care, the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery, Warren Snowdon, has announced.
14 October 2009
PM and Rural Health Minister Visit Murray Bridge
The people of Murray Bridge will feel the benefit of increased financial incentives to attract doctors and then keep them, as a result of the Australian Government’s Rural Health Workforce Strategy.
14 October 2009
Rural Health Among Rudd Government’s Top Priorities
Improved health care in regional and remote areas of Australia was a top priority in the Australian Government’s program of national health reform, Indigenous, Rural and Regional Health Minister Warren Snowdon said at the opening of the Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia Conference in Alice Springs.
12 October 2009
Shepparton Doctors Included in Cash Retention Scheme
Shepparton’s general practitioners would be offered retention grants of between $2500 and $12,000 under an Australian Government initiative to encourage them to stay in the district.
08 October 2009
A Million Dollar Home for Wellbeing on the Tiwi Islands
The Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health, and Regional Services Delivery, Warren Snowdon officially opened the new Wurrimiyanga Wellbeing Centre at Nguiu in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory on 8 October.
08 October 2009
Opening of the New Danila Dilba Health Service Centre
Local residents and medical professionals gathered for the opening of the new Danila Dilba Health Service Family Centre in Palmerston, Northern Territory.
07 October 2009
Cutting Elective Surgery Waiting Times in Newcastle
The Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery, Warren Snowdon, joined with Sharon Grierson, Federal Member for Newcastle for a tour of the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle which has benefited from the Australian Government’s Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan.
07 October 2009
Meeting to Make a Difference to Male Health
Men, health professionals, researchers and educators have gathered in Newcastle as part of the National Men’s Health Gathering 2009.
05 October 2009
Teaching the Importance of an Eye Check
The Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery, Warren Snowdon, has launched a new educational resource project aimed at improving eye health in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
03 October 2009
Encouraging Indigenous People into Health Careers
A new book - ‘Journeys into Medicine’ - launched at the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association’s Annual Symposium is a collection of stories from Indigenous doctors and medical students speaking about their experiences, challenges and triumphs in becoming and being a doctor.