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Only 52.6% of local women aged 50-74 participate in the free breast screening program. BreastScreen Queensland’s One more thing campaign is currently encouraging women in this age group to do something for themselves: book a breast screen, every two years. Locally, the Gold Coast service is also ...
The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national whole-of-life register and migration of historical vaccination data held by state and territory health departments is currently underway. During this transition period, some vaccination data will not be available on the AIR, in particular scho...
General practitioners (GPs) are invited to participate in research that aims to improve care of patients with sleeping problems. All practicing GPs can be involved in a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC) funded study that aims to find out GPs’ current approaches to helping patien...
The Gold Coast Public Health Immunisation Team are seeing an increase in children being referred by general practitioners (GPs) for the Meningococcal B vaccine (Bexsero). Gold Coast Public Health Unit advise this vaccine is safe to give from six weeks; however it is important that children up to the...
Gold Coast Sexual Health Service would like to extend a huge thank you to all healthcare providers who participated in enhanced surveillance study of Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea infection during GC2018. In 2018, questionnaires were sent to healthcare providers who managed patients diagnosed with Chlamy...
Healthcare providers and supporting organisations use the National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) to securely access and share health information. Renewing Certificates NASH PKI Certificates expire two years from the date of issue and you will need to request a new NASH PKI certificate whe...
Records will soon be created for every eligible Australian who wants one. Once created, they will be able to log in to their My Health Record (MyHR) through their myGov account and start managing their information and preferences. Their nominated healthcare providers will also be able to start uploa...
The Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Healthcare has commenced a national consultation on the draft second edition of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights. The consultation closes on 1 March 2019 and you can access the survey here. The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights des...
Health consequences of feeling isolated from others include disrupted sleep, elevated blood pressure, increases in the stress hormone cortisol, reduced immunity, increased depression and lower overall subjective wellbeing. The Bolton Clarke Research Institute is building on its work to combat social...
The National Cancer Screening Register (the national Register) has been supporting the renewed National Cervical Screening Program (the Program) since the commencement of the new HPV-based Cervical Screening Test on 1 December 2017. From 2 July 2018, following the migration of records of state and t...
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