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Unique home for young people celebrates 13th birthday
Victoria’s only permanent residence for young people with a significant acquired brain injury has marked its 13th birthday. Source: VMCH.
Medical groups sound alarm on ‘critical backlog’ in surgery waiting lists
Top medical groups have called for immediate action to reduce the “increasingly critical backlog” of patients waiting for elective surgery, with public hospitals failing to clear waiting lists that ballooned to unprecedented levels during the pandemic. Source: The Australian.
Catholic Health Australia warns cuts to services looming
Catholic Health Australia says hospitals could be forced to cut back services after the Department of Health and Aged Care backtracked on ensuring funding would continue to flow from private health insurers for almost 500 essential medical devices.
Gallagher takes swipe at Pocock over support for Calvary inquiry
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has taken a swipe at independent ACT Senator David Pocock for supporting the expansion of a federal parliamentary inquiry into a bill to compel an ACT Government inquiry into the takeover of Calvary Public Hospital Bruce. Source: Canberra Times.
Archbishop Comensoli says hospital takeover sets ‘worrying precedent’
Melbourne Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli has accused the ACT Government of forcibly acquiring Calvary Public Hospital Bruce because its Catholic ethos was “inconvenient”, saying the takeover sets a “worrying precedent for civil society groups”. Source: The Australian.
ACU’s metabolic chamber will be first of its kind in Southern Hemisphere
The Australian Catholic University will open a state-of-the-art human metabolic chamber at its Melbourne campus – the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
Kipling poem inspires Calvary ad campaign
Inspirational stories told by patients, residents, clients and staff are at the heart of Calvary Health Care’s new national brand campaign launched yesterday.
Hospital closure will not affect health services: St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Health Australia says an “extremely difficult” decision to close St Joseph’s Hospital in western Sydney came after years of trying to secure a viable future for the historic site. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
ACT Government attacks federal bill into takeover of Calvary Hospital
The ACT Government has attacked a federal bill into the Calvary Public Hospital takeover as “inappropriate” and “unnecessary”, and said, if passed, the act would impinge on the right to the territory’s self-determination. Source: Canberra Times.