New South Wales. Bureau of Health Information

Patient experiences to drive hospital improvements

Northern Territory. Department of Health

Media releases

3 July 2013 - Robyn Lambley - Minister welcomes food for future. Health Minister, Robyn Lambley, has congratulated the YWCA of Darwin for the successful implementation of its training and catering 'Food For Futures' project.

2 July 2013 - Robyn Lambley - Lambley welcomes Macklin's support for income quarantining. The Northern Territory Government has welcomed Federal Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin's support for welfare quarantining measures to apply to problem drinkers placed into Alcohol Mandatory Treatment.

1 July 2013 - Robyn Lambley - Day one of alcohol mandatory treatment. Up to 800 problem drinkers every year will undertake alcohol rehabilitation as part of the Country Liberals Government's Alcohol Mandatory Treatment measures, which get underway today.

Queensland. Department of Health

Media releases

11 July 2013 - Another Labor debacle: $800 million lost in mismanagement of private patients in Queensland Hospitals. A financial scandal to rival Queensland's infamous health payroll fiasco has been unearthed by the State's Auditor General in a report that found losses of $804 million in the mismanagement of private patients in State-run hospitals.

10 July 2013 - Queensland Mental Health Commissioner drives strategies across Government. Whole-of-Government strategies will be the key to improving frontline mental health services across the state, as Queensland's first Mental Health Commissioner Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck begins work.

9 July 2013 - Health Minister opens TPCH Library and Clinical school. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has officially opened The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) Library following its relocation to a new site on the top floor of the Children's Services wing.

2 July 2013 - Helicopter Rescue merger boosts services in South East Queensland. Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has congratulated the State's two largest and longest-serving helicopter rescue services on their merger, announced today in Maroochydore.

Response to Auditor-General's Report on Right of Private Practice (RoPP).

Impact of the recent legislative changes on Queensland Health.

Queensland Audit Office

Report 1 : 2013-14. Right of private practice in Queensland public hospitals.

South Australia. Department of Health

Media releases

5 July 2013 - More hospital beds for Adelaide's north - Patients in Adelaide's northern suburbs will be cared for in spacious, state-of-the-art private rooms when Lyell McEwin Hospital opens its new $51.8 million building to patients on Monday. Read more

4 July 2013 - New contract keeps flying doctors in South Australian skies. The Royal Flying Doctor Service will provide fixed-wing aeromedical services for South Australians for up to the next nine years. Read more

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