Departmental Media Releases
Links to the most recent Departmental media releases.
Date: 1/01/2009
Title: Talk, tell, transform lives - Australians urged to make a new kind of New Year’s resolution in 2009
Description:
Families across Australia are being encouraged to use get-togethers at the start of a new year to share their intentions about organ donation in a bid to raise our nation’s unacceptable transplantation rates.
Date: 1/01/2009
Title: PBS listing to help prevent invasive fungal infections
Description:
Thousands of patients suffering from invasive fungal infections will benefit from a new listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from 1 January 2009.
Date: 24/10/2008
Title: Food Ministers Consider Food Labelling Review
Description:
The twelfth meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council (Ministerial Council) was held in Adelaide today, 24 October, chaired by Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary to the Australian Government Minister for Health and Ageing.
Date: 10/10/2008
Title: Serious adverse events identified in Queensland with the use of
Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICC lines)
Description:
The Therapeutic Goods Administration is urgently investigating reports from Queensland Health of adverse events associated with the use of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) lines in Queensland. The reports follow an initial investigation of an incident involving a 5 year old child at Townsville Hospital.
Date: 29/09/2008
Title: Dr Mukesh Haikerwal
Description:
The Secretary, Jane Halton, and staff of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing are shocked at the news of the brutal assault on Dr Mukesh Haikerwal which has left him in a very serious condition.
Date: 26/08/2008
Title: CMO To Step Down
Description:
Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath AO, will step down from his role as CMO at the end of January 2009.
Date: 22/07/2008
Title: Australian Health Ministers’ Conference Communique
Description:
Australian Health Ministers met in Canberra today, with elective surgery, patient rights and the new Australian Health Care Agreements some of the main areas of discussion.
Date: 7/07/2008
Title: Preventative Health Taskforce - Media Release
Description:
The National Preventative Health Taskforce will release a discussion paper this September on the Australian Government’s blueprint for refocussing the health system on prevention.
Date: 22/06/2008
Title: New Commonwealth Chief Nurse Appointed
Description:
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has appointed Ms Rosemary Bryant as the first Commonwealth Chief Nurse in preconisation of the major role played by the nursing profession in the delivery of effective health care in Australia.
Date: 16/05/2008
Title: Prudent measures to conserve anti-coagulant medicines
Description:
Guidelines for clinicians on prudent measures to manage a potential shortage of anti-coagulant medicines containing the blood thinning agent, heparin, have been issued.
Date: 2/05/2008
Title: Food Ministers Agree To A Strategic Vision For Australian And New Zealand Food Regulation System
Description:
Health warnings on packaged alcohol and a draft standard on nutrition, health and related claims were discussed by the Australian and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council today.