The Weekly Update
Dear CRANAplus members,
Just a quick message to wish you all a wonderful festive season and prosperous New Year. I hope your 'on-call' is quiet if you’re working and for those lucky enough to be on holidays, relax and enjoy. 2010 is going to be a huge year of change for Australian health care and a great time in our history to be health professional. On behalf of the entire CRANAplus Board of Directors and staff - HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Christopher Cliffe
CRANAplus President
The Friday Flyer will not be published during the holiday office closure. The next edition will be on the 15th of January.
Welcome to the final Friday Flyer for 2009 and what a year it has been!
With the Alice Springs conference behind us we are already busy with preparations for our 2010 conference to be hosted in Adelaide October 13-16 (mark it in your diary now). A reminder also of office closures over the holidays, you’ll find the dates on the sidebar. Watch your letterbox for our magazine and let us know what you think of the new look.
CRANAplus student member Stephanie Jeremy was a recipient of a CRANAplus
/YNA Student Remote Placement Scholarship this year. During our conference in October she had the opportunity to meet the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery, Hon. Warren Snowdon, MP. Stephanie raised with him the inequity of the distribution of funds between nursing and medical students who wish to undertake rural or remote placements. The Minister recently offered her the opportunity to discuss her concerns with him and his advisors at Parliament House on December 11. You can read the media release in full by clicking on this link.
The FLEC team is reporting that courses for February and March are filling steadily with Mt Gambier full and now ‘wait listing’. Check the website for availability and book soon to avoid disappointment.
From all the CRANAplus team we wish you a safe and peaceful holiday season.
Cheers,
Anne-Marie Borchers
CRANAplus Business Manager
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Just a reminder re the online survey for the First Line Emergency Courses conducted by CRANAplus. This survey will only take you 10 minutes to complete and will assist in developing online programs for the remote health practitioner. Thanks for your time in advance.
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FIRST REPORT INTO REMOTE INDIGENOUS SERVICE DELIVERY
The Australian Government today released the first six monthly report from the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services on the progress being made in delivering essential services to people living in 29 priority Indigenous locations across Australia.
NT CHILD HEALTH CHECKS-MANY CHILDREN BENEFIT, SOME STILL NEED FOLLOW-UP SERVICES
This is the third and final progress report on the Child Health Check Initiative (CHCI), which provides information on the health conditions identified at the CHC and the extent of follow-up services provided to Indigenous children in prescribed areas.
DENGUE FEVER CASES ON THE RISE
The number of locally acquired type one dengue fever cases in Townsville, in north Queensland, has risen to 11.
GPS WANT ALLIED HEALTH SERVICES FUNDS BOOST
The group representing general practitioners in the Wide Bay says money set-aside for a GP super clinic in Bundaberg would be better spent on allied health services.
REPORT FOCUSES ON CHILD HEALTH DISPARITY
The report, prepared by Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation and the Far West Aboriginal Child Development and Wellbeing Management Group, focuses on the gap between indigenous children compared to other children across the state.
WARRNAMBOOL FEATURES IN TOBACCO DEATHS REPORT
A report has found the Warrnambool municipality has the greatest proportion of men dying from tobacco-related illnesses in Victoria.
NEW SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMISSIONER NAMED
Former ATSIC chief executive Mick Gooda will be the next Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Queensland's Torres Strait island communities say their pleas for funding to aid with problems caused by climate change have been ignored by the Australian Government.
COUNCIL BACKS 40YR LEASE HOUSING PLAN
The Palm Island Council in north Queensland will work with the State Government towards a 40-year land lease for public housing.
CHILDREN EATING HEALTHIER FOOD IN NTER COMMUNITIES
Indigenous parents living in Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) communities have reported that their children are eating more and are healthier, since the introduction of income management.
THE MEANING OF LIFE IS ... SPORT
During the football season in Port Lincoln, offending by Aboriginal juveniles is virtually nil. Off season, it soars.
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
A Senate Committee delivered a report entitled "Access to Justice" this month which is critical of funding available to Legal Aid and other community legal services, and highlighted the struggles of regional Australians and Indigenous people in gaining adequate access to legal support and representation.
INTERSTATE DIALYSIS TREATMENT PLEASES GREENS
The Australian Greens have welcomed the decision to allow some interstate patients access to dialysis in Alice Springs.
BABIES STILL BOOMING AS BIRTHS INCREASE
A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the baby boom is continuing.
NEW DEVICE MAKES CHECK-UP A BREEZE
Territorian Ryan Mitchell is the first paediatric cardiac patient using ground-breaking technology to stay in touch with interstate specialists.
WELFARE CLAMP BOOSTS HEALTH
The Rudd government has received new evidence that the quarantining of welfare payments in indigenous communities has significantly improved health, with children eating more and gaining weight as their parents' alcohol consumption fell.
SMILES AS WIDE AS WATERMELONS ABOUND
To see the benefits of income quarantining you need only look at the shine in the cheeks of the western desert children.
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