Topic: Health

Thousands of doctors, nurses and midwives are preparing to begin long and rewarding careers in Victoria’s world-class public hospitals. Around 810 first-year medical interns and 2,500 new nurses and midwife graduates will start their careers in 2019, ushering in a new era of highly-trained medical professionals to care for patients in hospitals and health services […]

More Victorians are surviving cardiac arrest than ever before as public defibrillator units become more readily available and more community members feel prepared and confident enough to use them. The Andrews Labor Government today released the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry (VACAR) which showed 82 people were defibrillated with a publicly-accessible defibrillator in the 2017/18 […]

The Andrews Labor Government is supporting pioneering projects that will change the way Victorian patients receive world-class care. Acting Minister for Health Luke Donnellan today announced the projects included as part of the latest $1.7 million Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund. The fund draws on Victoria’s best and brightest minds to find new and more […]

The pharmacy service at The Alfred hospital will become the sole service for dispensing voluntary assisted dying medications across Victoria, adding further safeguards to the historic scheme. Acting Minister for Health Martin Foley made the announcement today that the pharmacy service at The Alfred hospital would be responsible for importing, storing, preparing and dispensing medications […]

Victorians are being urged to roll up their sleeves and generously give the gift of life-saving blood this festive season. Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos today visited the Melbourne CBD Blood Donor Centre to help launch the Australian Red Cross Blood Service’s holiday season blood donation drive. The state-of-the-art CBD Blood Donor Centre is open […]

Mildura locals and health professionals will have two more months to have their say over the future of Mildura Base Hospital. Earlier this year, the Andrews Labor Government started community consultation to find out what matters to doctors, nurses and patients – and address the key question: should the Mildura Base Hospital be returned to […]

SafeScript, the Australian-first real-time prescription monitoring system rolled out by the Andrews Labor Government, is already saving lives and keeping patients with prescription medication addictions safe from harm. The cutting-edge system came online in Western Victoria at the start of October and will be rolled out across the state in April next year. In its […]

The Morrison minority Liberal Government’s mid-year budget update is proof their only plans for health are cuts, cuts and more cuts – and putting doctors, nurses and patients last. The 2018-19 MYEFO confirms what we all suspected – the Liberals are ignoring a groundswell of anger from the states and pushing ahead with a sneaky […]