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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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National News
Employer incentives for healthy staff - 1 December, 2008
Governments will develop plans to pay employers incentives to encourage healthier lifestyles among staff under a new preventive health package agreed by the commonwealth and the states...More
Long, bumpy road to nirvana - 29 November, 2008
Public hospitals humming with patients who are promptly and efficiently treated by satasfied staff, replacing the chaos of overcrowding and impossibly stretched resources...More
Sweet and deadly for the waistline - 29 November, 2008
If the definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expect a different outcome, then as a society we are not only getting fatter but crazier...More
COAG: States dig in heels on health funding - 27 November 2008
Kevin Rudd has claimed the extra $11bn to be offered to the premiers on Saturday could generate up to 75,000 jobs...More
Building steps to indigenous health - 26 November, 2008
Closing the indigenous health gap not only requires more doctors, nurses and infrastructure...More
'Never say die' trend persists as life expectancies rise - 26 November, 2008
The life expectancy of Australian men and women continues to improvem as medical advances outdo our unhealthy lifestyles...More
Don't hand mental services to states - 22 November, 2008
In 1997, the ABS conducted our first-ever national household survey of mental health...More
Roxon blocks state raids on health infrastructure fund - 19 November, 2008
States and territories will be shut out of Canberra's mulit-billion-dollar health infrastructure fund if they try to raid it to fill holes in their health budgets...More
State News
$7.7bn will still leave hospitals short of beds - 29 November, 2008
Doctors have warned that Canberra's $7.7bn health funding offer to the states will still leave public hospitals short of beds and operating at unsafe occupancy rates...More
Hospital inquiry urges closure of six emergency units - 28 November, 2008
A 10 month inquiry into the NSW hospital system has found the system to be in crisis and has recommended sweeping changes...More
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