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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Citing "a decision of conscience", Louisiana Catholic Representative Anh "Joseph" Cao was the sole Republican to vote with the Democrat majority to pass the House of Representatives health bill after Speaker Nancy Pelosi accepted to insert a ban on federal abortion funding proposed by Michigan Democrat Representative Bart Stupak.
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Thursday, 05 November 2009
The position of chaplain at the Lismore Base Hospital could be axed due to budget cutbacks, after almost 20 years of service to the patients, families and staff.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009
NSW chemist Trevor Dal Broi removed condoms from his East Griffith Pharmacy several weeks ago, banned the sale of emergency contraception morning after pills and is telling women using oral contraceptive pills for birth control to take their scripts to another chemist.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Catholic Health Australia has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to dump the Howard Government's aged care system and commit to "a radical rewrite" of the aged care rules.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009
Perth man Christian Rossiter plans to apply for a passport to travel to Switzerland to die, while the Australian Medical Association and Philip Nitschke were at odds about whether the ruling in the case was a step toward legalising euthanasia.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Catholic Health Australia is developing a plan to combine its hospitals, medical clinics and social services into a network offering free support programs for the community's most disadvantaged, under a new "Medicare Select" proposal.
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Reform is needed to address healthcare strain from a rapidly ageing population and retiring workforce, Tasmania's health department secretary David Roberts said at a Catholic Health Australia conference.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Catholic Health Australia said it was disappointed the Federal government's National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission's report only calls for "minor reforms" and defers the "real decision" of federally funding public hospitals.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Catholic Health Australia said all nursing homes should detail their performance across a range of indicators, from staff ratios and contact hours to the incidence of bedsores, for a league table of their own.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty was due to present a submission to a federal government inquiry on Tuesday but a boycott of the meeting by Opposition parliamentarians delayed the hearing for lack of a quorum.
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