Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
TweetI have contemplated for a while about having an occasional post written by an Aboriginal Health Service member describing the type of service they offer and why it is so important in their area....
View Article10 out of 10 Deadly Health Stories
TweetThere have been many innovative programs that have worked in Indigenous Health. The hard part it ensuring you can keep obtaining funding to run them. Much of the funding is one off grants and...
View ArticleCross Border Health: Renal Disease
TweetIt made the news nationwide when the Northern Territory banned those from adjoining border areas from going onto dialysis in Alice Springs no matter what family and tribal connections to the place...
View ArticleWalgan Tilly – Redesigning Aboriginal Health Programs in NSW
TweetIn NSW the Redesign Project Walgan Tilly produced a number of recommendations which in June 2008 led to changes in the way programs for chronic disease in Indigenous Australians was handled. This...
View ArticleStatus Report on the PBS Medicine Supply Arrangements for Remote Area...
Tweet Special arrangements for the supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines to patients of eligible Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services (AHSs) were introduced in 1999 under Section...
View ArticleClinical Pharmacist Practitioner in Indigenous Health, Remote South Australia
TweetThere aren’t many pharmacist jobs in Indigenous Health in Australia. Remote, rural or urban. Here is a great Pharmacist job with an Aboriginal Health Service in Port Augusta that has a long and...
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Providing a Remote Health Service and the Price of Fuel
TweetAlice has 2nd highest fuel prices in country was the headline of an ABC article on Monday. Fuel in the Alice costs $1.48 a litre. I assume this is unleaded though diesel would be sold far more...
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Two Meetings Highlight Disparity in eHealth in Remote Australia
TweetMeeting 1. E-Health Conference, Revolutionising Australia’s Health Care An invitation only two day seminar on e-Health was held in Melbourne on November 30 and December 1st. Apparently a “draft...
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Medicines Australia and the Western Desert Dialysis Truck
TweetThe Purple House’s (Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku) dialysis truck has been a long time coming. But the wait is worth it. Cross border issues with funding and the locations to...
View ArticleKungkaku Yungupalaku Healthy Relationships Project – a Improving Sexual...
TweetThese stories were developed and mostly filmed, animated by young people in Warburton and Warakurna. They have identified ways of health seeking, appropriate services, supporting each other,...
View ArticleRemote Pharmacist WA – A conversation between myself and the Pharmacy Guild...
TweetIn January 2015 the president of the Pharmacy Guild George Tambassis and his PR man Greg Turnbull came onto the lands to spend 5 days with me on the lands. George and I have known each other since...
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