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The newly established Ministerial Expert Panel on Women’s Health, focusing on women’s cardiovascular health, held its inaugural meeting at Parliament House, marking an important step towards improving heart and vascular health for women across Australia.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's interview with Belinda King on the national investment into GP training, UTAS medical degrees, and the Fuel crisis.

The newly established Ministerial Expert Panel on Women’s Health, focusing on women’s cardiovascular health, today held its inaugural meeting at Parliament House, marking an important step towards improving heart and vascular health for women across Australia.

Australia is a step closer to eliminating hepatitis B and C as public health challenges by 2030 with the release of two new national strategies today.

The Australian Government is investing in specialised education and training for frontline healthcare workers to support the early identification, management and treatment of chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer.

Highly experienced senior executive Ms Robyn Kruk AO has been appointed Acting Chair of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Board.

Tasmania will see more trainee doctors working in local clinics and rural communities following the Albanese Government’s announcement of more than $1 billion to deliver more doctors to more communities across the country.

Older Tasmanians in Northern Tasmania will soon have greater access to aged care close to home, with the Australian Government investing nearly $18 million to build a new residential aged care wing at Grenoch Home, Deloraine.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's press conference about new funding for Aged Care Deloraine.

The Australian Government is continuing to deliver more choice, lower costs and better health care for women.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's press conference about the women's health panel's focus on cardiovascular health.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's interview with Tom Connell about women's health and organ donorship.

Heart health for women will be the first focus of the Australian Government’s new Ministerial Expert Panel on Women’s Health.

Since the national DonateLife program began under a Labor Government, more than 20,000 Australians have received a life-saving transplant thanks to more than 7,500 deceased organ donors.

Read the opinion piece from Assistant Minister White on organ donation.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's press conference on organ donation.

The start of a new First Nations-led employment model to train GPs in rural Queensland will improve First Nations health and help Close the Gap.

Special Envoy for Men’s Health, Mr Dan Repacholi MP will join Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care,and Federal Member for Lyons, the Hon Rebecca White MP in Tasmania today as part of ongoing national work to improve the health and wellbeing of Australian men and boys.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's press conference on additional beds on the Callington Wing at the Midlands Multi-Purpose Health Centre.

Tasmanians now have access to 59 Medicare Bulk Billing practices, statewide, following the Australian Government’s historic investment to strengthen Medicare.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister White's press conference about Bulk Billing, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and Medicare Mental Health Kids Hubs

Tasmanian families now have access to free mental health support and care for their children at Medicare Mental Health Kids Hubs in three locations — East Tamar, Burnie and Jordan River.

The Albanese Labor Government has today announced the recipients of Round 2 of the First Nations Cancer Scholarship, which provides financial and wellbeing support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates undertaking further cancer-related postgraduate studies or research.

Twenty new medical students will start at the University of Tasmania’s (UTAS) Launceston campus this month where they will complete their entire medical degree, thanks to the Australian Government.

The Albanese Government’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have recently reached several significant milestones in Tasmania.