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IHHC Food Safety Program Guide Review
The IHHC Food Safety Program Guide was developed over many years by a team of people who work in healthcare hospitality and understand the difficulties of mastering the development, implementation, monitoring, verification and ongoing upkeep of听 a food safety program. Following a recent review of the Guide,听 Gary Kennedy takes us through the changes. [ + ]
Free Toolkit Could Revolutionise Menopause Diagnosis and Treatment
A free and simple toolkit for GPs could revolutionise menopause diagnosis and treatment. [ + ]
Lung Test Could Help Asthmatic Children Better Manage Their Condition
Sydney researchers have discovered how a novel type of lung test could help asthmatic children better manage their condition at home. [ + ]
The environment and hand hygiene - The two go hand in hand
All healthcare workers play a part in infection prevention and control in healthcare settings.听 The slogan 鈥榠nfection control is everybody鈥檚 business鈥� has been used by infection prevention and control professionals to promote key messages to healthcare workers over many years. This catch phrase is still relevant today, if not more so, in relation to measures such as hand hygiene and environmental cleanliness, writes Annie Wells. [ + ]
Grant Kardachi Re-elected as PSA National President
[caption id="attachment_8461" align="alignright" width="161"] Grant Kardachi[/caption] Pharmaceutical Society of Australia National President Grant Kardachi has been re-elected for a fourth term. The PSA National Board met in Canberra today and also re-elected Joe Demarte as Vice President and elected Michelle Lynch as the other Vice President. [ + ]
Researchers Take a Giant Leap Towards Bio-printing Transplantable Tissues and organs
The University of Sydney has reported researchers have made a giant leap towards the goal of 'bio-printing' transplantable tissues and organs for people affected by major diseases and trauma injuries. [ + ]
Long Waits for Surgeries Eliminated at Townsville HHS
Townsville 黑料吃瓜群网 and Health Service has achieved a major performance benchmark with patients receiving surgery on time every time. [ + ]
Broome Health Campus Upgrade Started
Work has started on the $8.6million upgrade of the Broome Health Campus Emergency Department. [ + ]
UQ Researchers Working on Vaccine Against Strep Throat
Researchers are one step closer to developing a safe vaccine against strep throat, which is responsible for more than 700 million infections and 500,000 deaths each year. [ + ]
LASA Says Government has Abandoned People with Dementia
[caption id="attachment_8406" align="alignright" width="133"] Patrick Reid[/caption] [ + ]
BeAWARE Program on Recognising Heart Attack for General Practice Staff
An online program to educate general practice staff, specifically non-clinical (reception staff), on the best ways to identify patients with suspected warning signs of heart attack and stroke has shown huge increases in awareness, confidence and intended action taken by staff who completed the program. [ + ]
New Collaboration will Boost Research and Development in MRI
[caption id="attachment_8582" align="alignright" width="200"] Professor Peter H酶j and Toby Carrington sign the collaboration agreement between UQ and Siemens Siemens Australia that will boost research and development in MRI.[/caption] [ + ]
National Disability Insurance Agency Chief Provides First Year Report
Next week marks the first anniversary of the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is timely that we take a moment to reflect just how far we have come in that year, and also to name some of the challenges we will face going forward to full scheme rollout in coming years. [ + ]
